A 16-year-old Christian student is taking her school to the High Court over her right to wear a Christian 'purity ring'.
Christiantoday.com
By: Gretta Curtis
A 16-year-old Christian student 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, symbolising 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 rise in sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies among teenagers. Her case was even raised by her MP, Andrew Selous, with the Schools Minister, Jim Knight, in the House of Commons.
Lydia criticised the treatment she had received from the school which led to her recent decision to stop wearing the ring.
She said: "My friends and I have had detentions and been taught in isolation for wearing the ring.
"I feel like I've been treated the same as someone who is caught bringing cannabis into school.
"My ring is a symbol of my religious faith. I think, as a Christian, it says we should keep ourselves pure from sexual sinfulness and wearing the ring is a good way of making a stand.
"I stopped wearing the ring because it was being made really difficult for me.
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