A Stitch in Haste

As murky as American "student speech" jurisprudence is (and it just got a lot worse), it's still better than Europe's:

A teenager has lost her High Court challenge to be allowed to wear a Christian "purity ring" to school.
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[L]awyers for the school successfully argued that the purity ring was not an essential part of the Christian religion and contravened the school's uniform policy.

Note: "the" Christian religion. As if there's only one.

More:

Her lawyer had argued that the school, which allows Muslim and Sikh students to wear headscarves and religious bracelets, was violating Lydia's right to "freedom of thought, conscience and religion" under Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Indeed, some Western nations even allow Sikh children to bring ceremonial daggers to school. But again, educrats know "the" Sikh religion as well as "the" Christian religion, so in their minds an inconsistent policy accommodating one but not the other is perfectly hunky-dory.

The girl's family is considering an appeal, although it's unclear whether that would be to the House of Lords or to the European Union's judicial system.

More thoughts at Religion Clause.