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Purity ring
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What's a purity ring ? I ask because some girl is taking her school/education authority to the high court for not being allowed to wear one.
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My chastity is wedded to God until I marry wedding ring type thing.
What is fucking annoying me is that it's got to the high court and the £10'000's this is going to cost the tax payer.
Maybe because not everyone in this country is Christian and doesn't feel the need to have Christian values forced upon them?
What is the taking away crucifixes at work thing?
My school had sense. One plain ring, one plain necklace (any pendant smaller than finger tip), one pair plain studs. Not allowed for PE or sport. Own responsibilty.
Not allowing someone to wear a crucifix isn't stopping them from forcing their values on someone else, it's opressing their right to freedom of expression.
Mainly, though, i'm just a bit annoyed that this has gone this far. Who actually, in real life, cares? It's just some jumped up civil servant with a bit of power deciding to 'stick to the rules' and instead wasting tax-payers money. FFS, let her wear a ring. I don't care, and i'm pretty certain a) noone else does and b) it's not going to affect her ability to learn.
Execpt of course that a majority of people who try this 'silver ring thing' dont save it till they are married and if I remember rightly a higher percentage of them than normal have un protected sex on their first time.
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They're much more likely not to use contraception as they have always believed they would never need it. I think a study also found higher STI rates among them.
I went to a Catholic school and the only type of jewellery we were allowed to wear was a simple cross on a chain that had to be hidden away under our shirts. Rings: purity or filthy-heaven-slutbag, were forbidden.
Silver Ring thing has come over from the USA where education is very different and is where the statistics I saw about higher unprotected sex rates came from.
If it does, she should shut up. Nobody's discriminating against her.
If it doesn't, someone should whack whoever told her to remove it on the head with a stick.
I don't think we can easily say whether that's what's going on though.
Call me a cynic, but this quote from her from the BBC doesnt sound like a usual 16 year old;
"The real reason for the extreme hostility to the wearing of the SRT purity ring is the dislike of the message of sexual restraint which is counter cultural and contrary to societal and governmental policy,"
Yes, you're quite right, still - its an odd quote.
Indeed. We have the rule at school where no rings are allowed.
No, it certainly doesn't sound like something a 16-year old would say. She may well have been reading something her lawyer had prepared in advance, however.
I think there's a key point here. Personally, I don't respect any religious beliefs, but I would at least try to be accomodating. However, whilst the sikh turban and the muslim hijab are actually required to carry out their religious beliefs, in their interpretation of them, a ring isn't. The ring is simply a symbol of certain religious beliefs, whereas the others I mentioned are a practical requirement for carrying out certain religious beliefs.
Having said all that, my attitude is fuck it, as long as it's not interfering with anything, why waste all that money fighting it? Just let her wear the ring if she feels that strongly about it. Change the uniform policy to allow one ring if needs be.
But that would mean everyone else wanting to wear rings as well. And what would she do if she caught the rin and managed to hurt herself? The rule of not wearing a ring is there for a reason.
Why only a ring. "This is my fasting poncho, I shall be wearing it throughout lent."