Purity ring ban discriminates against Christians, says pupil

A TEENAGE girl accused a school yesterday of discriminating against her Christian faith by banning her from wearing a “purity ring”.

Lydia Playfoot told the High Court she was unlawfully prevented from wearing the silver ring — her evangelical family is at the centre of the “Silver Ring Thing” movement — symbolising her Christian belief in chastity before marriage.

The Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, stopped her and several other Christian girls from wearing the rings on the basis that the uniform code did not allow the wearing of jewellery at the school.