Friday, June 22, 2007
Ring ban an 'unlawful interference'
The UK Express said: A ban on a teenage girl wearing a "purity ring" was attacked at the High Court 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 engraved with a Biblical verse as a sign of their belief in abstinence from sex until marriage.
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".
IMO: As I have said before, this country has no proper balance on religious matters any longer. The secularists need not fear that the admission that some people believe in religion will automatically do harm. There's a good case that this is the opposite of the truth. Even so-called 'Dirty Des' of the highly successful 'Northern and Shell', and the 'Daily Express', can see that.
[Somebody just said: What do these people like anyway ? Drinking, Smoking, Gambling, Womanising, Slaughtering Animals: That is what they seem to like, I suppose. If someone has worn a ring for some purpose, they don't seem to like it. A very strange 'School'. Looks like nothing good is allowed in the UK. Just murder, fraud, bribery, torture and nonsensical and useless politicians.]
Lydia Playfoot, 16, is one of a group of Christians at the Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, who wears the ring engraved with a Biblical verse as a sign of their belief in abstinence from sex until marriage.
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".
IMO: As I have said before, this country has no proper balance on religious matters any longer. The secularists need not fear that the admission that some people believe in religion will automatically do harm. There's a good case that this is the opposite of the truth. Even so-called 'Dirty Des' of the highly successful 'Northern and Shell', and the 'Daily Express', can see that.
[Somebody just said: What do these people like anyway ? Drinking, Smoking, Gambling, Womanising, Slaughtering Animals: That is what they seem to like, I suppose. If someone has worn a ring for some purpose, they don't seem to like it. A very strange 'School'. Looks like nothing good is allowed in the UK. Just murder, fraud, bribery, torture and nonsensical and useless politicians.]
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