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LONDON, July 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A teenage girl lost her legal battle for the right to wear a chastity ring in class after the United Kingdom's High Court ruled the school's ban did not constitute "unlawful interference" with her Christian faith.Lydia Playfoot, 16, had challenged the ban imposed by Millais School in Horsham, saying the ring was an expression of her Christian faith and commitment to abstain from sex until marriage. Playfoot was among a dozen other girls that had worn the chastity rings until the school ordered them to remove them saying that it violated the uniform policy....

(Michael Crabtree/The Times) Lydia Playfoot, who says her school is discriminating against her for banning her from wearing a purity ring (Michael Crabtree/The Times) The ring that Millais School banned Lydia Playfoot from wearing A teenage girl who was banned by her school from wearing a "purity ring" is taking her case to the High Court today. Lydia Playfoot, 16, is a member of a Christian group called the Silver Ring Thing and one of a number of students at the Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, who wears a silver ring engraved with a Biblical reference — "1...