The Thomas Chronicles

Speaking of tolerance, this article from the Guardian perfectly elucidates my point of the pseudo-tolerance that’s endemic to the ideology of the Left.

A ban on a teenage girl wearing a “purity ring” was attacked at the high court today as an “unlawful interference” with her right to express her Christian faith.

Lydia Playfoot, 16, is one of a group of Christians at the Millais school in Horsham, West Sussex, who wears the ring as a sign of her belief in abstinence from sex until marriage.

The teenager claims her secondary school, which allows Muslim and Sikh students to wear headscarves and religious bracelets, is breaching her human rights by preventing her from wearing the ring.

But authorities claim the band, which is engraved with a Biblical verse, is not an integral part of the Christian faith and contravenes its uniform policy.

Today, human rights barrister Paul Diamond, appearing for Lydia, argued that secular school authorities had no right to set themselves up as arbiters of faith and “cannot rule on religious truth”.

He asked deputy high court judge Michael Supperstone QC to declare that the school had acted outside its powers when it banned the wearing of the purity ring.

He also claimed that the school authorities were violating Lydia’s right to “freedom of thought, conscience and religion” under article nine of the European convention on human rights.

It is not the first time students have faced school bans over Christian symbols.

Earlier this year, 13-year-old Catholic schoolgirl Samantha Devine was told not to wear a crucifix on a chain because it breached health and safety rules at the Robert Napier school, in Gillingham, Kent.

The school said the only exception it would make to its uniform rule would be if the jewellery was an essential part of a particular religion, which they did not feel was the case for the teenager.

After years of observation on the point, the Left has a consistent pattern of choosing to be tolerant of ideologies and religions and behaviors that are antithetical to Western Christian culture. Of course, this article was addressing a particular injustice in Britain, not the United States, but the pattern of behavior from the Left here in the United States is very similar.

Indeed, most of our liberals want to re-make America into the image of Europe and discard our outmoded pedestrian views. Americans are really a backward people, didn’t you know?

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Michelle Malkin has a longer post up on this topic.  Bookworm has one up as well.

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