Your whole rant is just a lame exercise in guilt by association, noteworthy for the paucity of guilt and the tenuousness of the association.

This kids parents run the franchise for the SRT, the SRT is a profit making enterprise, so fucking what? So is Greenpeace! Has anyone checked Bob Geldof’s bank account lately? Aside from that you have one lame lingerie shot!

If you guys want to strut your contempt for religiously imposed restrictions on personal freedom why don’t you sharpen your intellectual pencils and take aim at Islam? Because that would make you “Islamophobic” wouldn’t it? And Islamophobia is a violation of your rigid anally retentive liberal code!

Your whole smarmy diatribe signally fails to address the central issue; will the encouragement of unrestrained and age ambivalent sexual freedom lead to a better society full of more healthy and well adjusted people, or will it have the same affect on mental health that unrestricted access to cheap food has had on physical health?

Junk food is enjoyable, but a diet of junk food is bad, it is highly probable that junk behaviour has the same trajectory and final destination.

One final point, you say that 80% of SRT subscribers end up having sex well before marriage, one point that you seem to have failed to consider is that breaking this taboo probably made their first sexual encounters incomparably more exciting than were/are the casual indiscriminate encounters of their peers, so who really got the best deal?

As Tom Sawyer noted, to make a thing desirable, you have to make it hard to get!

As I recall, pure adornment was discouraged. Looking back, it seems like a good stance.

Ministry of Truth » Silver Bling Thing Until I read the above blog article, I was planning to write an entry about how I supported Lydia Playfoot’s campaign to be able to wear a silver ring to school, as part……

Did the company sell those rings at no profit? Even if they did, the rings have just been judicially held to be non-religious items, mere jewellery no different from that sold in stores. So, exactly what religious or educational purpose has this company fulfilled in keeping with its articles of association and its not-for-profit designation and the tax relief that flowed from that designation? Does the company continue to hold that status and receive beneficial tax treatment now and, did it deserve that tax treatment before this judgment?

I don’t know if a civil court decision stating that the rings are non-religious items in the context of school uniform rules can be used to show this company does not qualify for the beneficial tax status it received then or now. But if it can, I’d want to know if the company fulfilled a religious or educational purpose in some other way. For example, did it provide any education to a religious group and was that training truly religious or just moral? I also wonder if the church under which “Silver Ring Thing (IK) Ltd.” ostensibly operates to sell its rings considers this company to be a vehicle for delivering its actual religious doctrine.

It would bother me if the GBP 12,000 that Playfoot’s parents owe in expenses to the English court system are in any way coming from the sale of items that received favourable tax treatment on the basis that the goods were religious when they are not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6900512.stm

PLEASE can we have some sanity on this issue.

And you are absolutely right on the reason behind uniform policy. Having just helped management at the school where I work to revamp the uniform and personal possessions policy I can assure you that the biggest concern for school staff is something getting stolen or lost and the school getting blamed.

I feel very sorry for this young lady and I hope she reaches a point in her life when she can see how manipulated she has been by this ‘church’ and her parents.

Keep up the excellent work!! How about tackling the cr*p we are sold about climate change next?

As an American I am, once again, embarrassed by my country’s excesses.

Thank you for telling us the truth.

The legal age of consent to a religion should be the same as the legal age of consent to sex. Perhaps the religionists should tell us what age that should be?

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Evidentemente non sono il solo ad aver valutato come orientata al business la vicenda della ragazza inglese cui è stato proibito di indossare a scuola il purity ring simbolo della sua verginità.
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Never trust anything to do with Christainity that the Americans have come up with. 9 out of 10 times it will be nonsensel.