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    15-year-old refuses to wear ID due to religious beliefs

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Christian fundamentalists in civil rights unions often wind up on opposite sides of the courtroom but they're finding themselves on the same side of a controversy.

Over a -- -- ID in Texas.

The northside independent school district in San Antonio is put tracking chips in the ID badges for more than 4000.

High school students.

School officials say it helps keep attendance records but civil liberties unions worry of invasion of privacy.

And some evangelicals are saying participation in the -- tracking program amounts to idolatry.

Now the case is going to federal court Lauren green is here with morning's -- -- -- you -- Andrea Hernandez says she has been become.

A second class citizens in her San Antonio high school all because of -- religious beliefs.

She can not check books out of the library has to stand in a separate lunch line and couldn't vote with a homecoming royalty.

I -- -- -- during the day -- A smile on my face that I do their best I can say -- investing in that a possibly can be.

It's all because the fifteen year old refuses to Wear the school's new mandated high tech ID.

Embedded with the traffic signal which she and her family called -- -- demonic from the pages of the Bible's book of revelation.

I'll talk about you don't take market -- -- cannot participate in the economy of the way of the world are my daughter does not Wear this are -- tracking chip.

Chicken participate in the schools economy at all the -- -- are part of the pilot program for about 4200 middle and high school students.

Attendance tracker could potentially bring the district the fourth largest in taxes an additional one point seven million dollars in funding.

Urban and his family objects for religious regions their case is now in federal court.

We have a first and the freedom of religion playing the First Amendment freedom of expression claim the other thing was the privacy concerns.

The school offered to remove the tracking device from her -- which she declined because she feels wearing it would still appear as an endorsement of the current program.

The school's attorney points -- that Andrea has worn ID badges in the past.

Believes it's concessions address her concerns.

We think the only unique circumstance about this year.

Is the presence of the RFID device and we've agreed to remove that we don't think it's legitimate for student to say I'm not going to Wear a -- at all we think that that's a reasonable expectation.

The next court hearing which is in about ten days will decide if -- and remain in school.

While her case proceeds through her interest and Lorne -- thank --

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