THE GUARDIAN: A ban on a teenage girl wearing a "purity ring" was attacked at the high court today as an "unlawful interference" with her right to express her Christian faith.
Lydia Playfoot, 16, is one of a group of Christians at the Millais school in Horsham, West Sussex, who wears the ring as a sign of her belief in abstinence from sex until marriage.
The teenager claims her secondary school, which allows Muslim and Sikh students to wear headscarves and religious bracelets, is breaching her human rights by preventing her from wearing the ring. School’s chastity ring ban ‘violated religious freedom’ (more) By James Orr and agencies
THE GUARDIAN:
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DIE PRESSE:
Junge Britin verklagt Schule wegen Diskriminierung von Christen: Einer Schülerin wurde das Tragen eines "Keuschheits-Rings" verboten
Mark Alexander
