Posted on 07/17/2007 2:40:09 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
LONDON - A teenager whose teachers had stopped her wearing a “purity ring” at school to symbolize her commitment to virginity has lost a High Court fight against the ban.
Lydia Playfoot, 16, says her silver ring is an expression of her faith and had argued in court that it should be exempt from school regulations banning the wearing of jewelry.
“I am very disappointed by the decision this morning by the High Court not to allow me to wear my purity ring to school as an expression of my Christian faith not to have sex outside marriage,” Playfoot said in a statement Monday.
“I believe that the judge’s decision will mean that slowly, over time, people such as school governors, employers, political organizations and others will be allowed to stop Christians from publicly expressing and practicing their faith.”
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And so the long, slow march to tyranny continues unabated.
Unfortunate last name.
Put on a burqa and you can do whatever you want.
UK throwing all christians under the mulitcultrism bus all in the name of insane political correctness.
What a charming face! I’m sorry she lost, but I hope she’ll keep the faith in spite of the discrimination against her.
The school says “no jewelry”.
She wears jewelry and gets upset when she gets in trouble for... breaking the rule.
It shouldn’t matter if the ring stood for virginity, dancing with snakes, incest or abortion. The rule says “no jewelry”.
The arguments in the girl’s favor are simply stupid.
Anything BUT Christianity is acceptable to the left.
Freedom of Religion is not allowed in the UK.
The judge wouldn’t dare do that to muslims.. because they’d murder his family in retribution.
But Sikh are allowed to wear bracelets in the same school. That was the problem.
“Miss Playfoot’s lawyers argued in court last month that the school had allowed Muslim and Sikh pupils to wear headscarfs and religious bracelets, and her ring should also be regarded as a genuine religious symbol.”
Yeah, I don’t think he actually read the article before posting.
The Hindu girls at the school are allowed to wear bracelets.
oops I didn’t read all the replies before posting
And yet Sikhs can carry a Kirpan to school in Britain (Canada too).
I wonder if teachers, or married students, are allowed to wear wedding bands? If you were speeding to escape a tsunami or a wildfire, do you think the cops should give you a ticket? The sign says, "Speed Limit 55" after all...
The arguments in the girl’s favor are simply stupid.
Not as stupid as zero tolerance elitist PC rules that require suspension or expulsion for a high school student who pops a Tylenol, chews on a cough drop, brings a 1" plastic GI Joe gun to school, or wears a religious ornament as innocuous as that ring.
Gives one the feeling of looking in a national mirror.
And, beyond that, this is occuring in an underdeveloped Islamic nation.
The “rule” against jewelry doesn’t apply to Muslims or Sikhs. Only Christians.
Yeah, I can’t see how this is either big news or that enforcing their school rules is wrong.
It’s like when they banned Spuds McKenzie stuff when I was a kid, even keychains. I thought that was dumb, but they wanted no alcohol ads. Maybe I shoulda sued and said he’s my god or something.
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