[Pastor Ezekiel]

In an act certain to enrage Jesus, a hellbound judge has refused to allow a nubile Christian teenaged girl to continue to be a virgin. Can anyone still say they doubt that the Clinton regime left us a nightmarish legacy of activist jurists, hellbent on destroying Christianity?

Teenager loses purity ring legal battle

Teenager Lydia Playfoot today lost her High Court challenge over a ban preventing her from wearing a Christian “purity ring“.

Sixteen-year-old Lydia Playfoot claimed the ban at the Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, was an “unlawful interference” with her right to express her Christian faith.

Lydia is one of a group of Christians at the Millais School who wore the ring engraved with a Biblical verse as a sign of their belief in abstinence from sex until marriage.

In court her lawyers claimed that her secondary school, which allows Muslims and Sikh students to wear headscarfs and religious bracelets, breached her human rights by preventing her from wearing the ring.

The school denied her claims, arguing that the purity ring is not an integral part of the Christian faith and contravenes its uniform policy.

At a recent hearing at the High Court in London, human rights barrister Paul Diamond, appearing for Lydia, argued that the secular school authorities had no right to set themselves up as arbiters of faith and “cannot rule on religious truth”.

The rings stem from the “Silver Ring Thing” (SRT) movement which started in the Godly United States. SRT rings are worn by Christian teenagers to symbolise a pledge not to have sex before marriage and have led to an impassioned debate over religious expression and sex education.

Mr Diamond, who also represented Nadia Eweida in the British Airways ” cross” case, argued: “Secular authorities cannot rule on religious truth.”

In her statement, Lydia said: “As a Christian I do not agree with sex before marriage.

“I believe I have a right not only to state my Christian views on sex, but also to demonstrate my Christian faith and commitment to God and my future husband not to have sex before marriage, through the wearing of a purity ring.

“I, along with 11 other well-developed Christian girls at Millais School, decided before God that we would make a commitment not to have sex before marriage, and as a sign of that commitment, to wear a simple silver ring from the ‘Silver Ring Thing’ movement.”

She said: “The wearing of the ring was, to me, a demonstration of my Christian faith and values, which are based on the Bible - which clearly teaches that sex outside of marriage is wrong and therefore not God’s best for us.

“Despite the fact that Muslim girls at our school wear headscarves, and Sikhs wear Kara bangles, the school refused to allow me to manifest my belief through the wearing of a ring.

The teenager concluded: “As a Christian though, I live for another Kingdom, and serve another King, Jesus Christ, and therefore I shall continue to live and speak for what is right and true.”

This fine young girl's story just breaks my heart. I cannot imagine that a court would rule that Miss Playfoot has to lose her virginity to a "Sikh Mudslim", just because she expressed her Christian faith by keeping her legs tightly closed.

[Joo (Quarantined)]

That is pretty dumb. It may not be part of their uniform but it's just a ring...

[Brother Temperance]

How disgusting. If she wished to charge into her school waving a Hezbollah banner and an explosive belt, she'd probably get extra credit for it as part of her GCSE in multicultural political correctness studies, but if she simply wishes to display some pure and modest Christian bling bling, she's treated worse than a common criminal. Jesus weeps at this latest example of political correctness gone mad.

[Brother Guy Bayard]

mmm. here in South Australia a mooslum woman was permitted to leave her burqa on for her drivers licence ID. True story.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

What a horrible act of anti-Christian persecution that is. If she had publicly declared herself to be a hippie wiccan or a man-hating feminazi lezbanian, the school would have looked for ways to treat her like everyone else and thus give her all kinds of special privileges. But since she's a Christian, the school has to single her out for abuse by not bending its rules even just a tiny bit to accommodate her.

Rev. 6:10: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?