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The United States Department of Health and Human Services has launched a campaign that encourages parents to talk to their children about abstaining from sex until marriage. The campaign includes TV, radio and print public service announcements as well as the website

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The High Court in Britain is deliberating over the claim of a 16-year-old girl to the right to wear a purity ring as a symbol of her religious commitment to chastity. Lydia Playfoot was told by her new school to remove the ring or face expulsion since it broke rules against wearing jewellery. However, the school allows Sikhs and Muslims to wear items such as bracelets and headscarves which are integral to their religious beliefs. It says it would allow a Christian pupil to wear a crucifix. But Lydia says her ring, inscribed with a biblical reference, is an expression of her faith too.
Lydia and other girls at the school are part of the Silver Ring Thing and her parents are on the volunteer team that promotes the movement in Britain. She argues that she has the right to wear the ring under a freedom of religious expression clause in the Human Rights Act. In a written statement to the court she said girls faced a "moral and ethical" crisis and that other teenage girls at her school had become pregnant. Other students regularly broke the school rules with nose rings, tongue studs, badges and dyed hair.

The only reason for banning the rings was that the school refused to "give respect to aspects of the Christian faith they are not familiar with", Lydia said. "The real reason for the extreme hostility … is the dislike of the message of sexual restraint which is counter cultural and contrary to societal and government policy," she added.

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