Friday, May 04, 2007

Christian Teen Takes Purity Ring Case to High Court

LONDON – A 16-year-old Christian student in the United Kingdom is taking her school to the High Court over her right to wear a Christian “purity ring.”

Lydia Playfoot hit the headlines last year when governors at Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, banned her from wearing a small silver ring symbolizing her Christian commitment to sexual abstinence until marriage.

The Silver Ring Thing is a Christian education project aimed at helping teenage girls value themselves, make the right choices about their future, and reduce Britain's ever-increasing number of reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies among teenagers.

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