clipped from: www.telegraph.co.uk 
A school that banned a teenage girl from wearing a "purity" ring to symbolise her opposition to sex before marriage did not discriminate against her religious beliefs, the High Court ruled today
Lydia Playfoot, 16, claimed that the ban imposed by the Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, constituted "unlawful interference" with her fundamental rights to express her Christian faith.
But in a ruling she described as "very disappointing", Michael Supperstone, a deputy High Court judge, said that the school had not breached the Human Rights Act.
Miss Playfoot, the daughter of a Christian minister, was one of a dozen girls who wore the ring, which is engraved with a verse from the Bible, to show their intention to abstain from sex until they married.
But the school told the girls to remove their rings as the wearing of jewellery contravened its uniform policy.