[Amos McCoy]

Finally a young man who was raised well by his parents who is willing to show God's glory to all through his actions by not participating in something that goes against his beliefs - even when that means no state championship. And even when that means that some will twist this into a gender/sexist/leftist ideology.

There are two videos at this site. One that shows Joel forfeiting, and another where the Athletic Director does a stand up job of defending Joel's decision not to wrestle with a girl on principle.

[nolongerademocrat]

Good for him.

[Persevero]

I am very proud of this young man. An excellent testimony.

[kimmie7]

Bravo, Joel! Bravo!

[Mr. Mojo]

The other girl, Megan, lost her match in 52 seconds to the boy she wrestled.

He sure took his sweet time.

[Clock King]

Yeah, the girl really wants some guy she never met grabbing her down by the crotch (inner thigh) and under her boobs? The girl’s parent(s) are nuts.

[americanophile]

I'm not sure it has much to do with faith, as opposed to old fashioned good manners, but it seems like a decision of conscience nonetheless.

[Cedar]

Good for Joel. Jesus said His people would be “the light of the world” -— and Joel is shining his light today!

[BigCinBigD]

He should have made an example of her.

[krb]

I don’t get it. Was he afraid he was going to not be able to control himself? Why couldn’t he make quick work of her and demonstrate how silly it is for boys and girls to be doing this sport together?

[johngrace]

If he did wrestler her we would never had heard about his christian witness.

[Future Snake Eater]

Hmmmm...well, I guess he’s a better man than I. Personally, this would seem an appropriate time to demonstrate that there really are some things that women just shouldn’t do.

[happyhomemaker]

What a great young man. God Bless his decision to honor a young lady. She doesn’t realize it yet...but this young man just honored her position as a cherished young lady.

[EternalVigilance]

Home schooled kids. One of the few bright spots left in American culture.

God bless this young man for being willing to stand on principle, even when it costs him something personally.

The media can go suck eggs.

[Secret Agent Man]

Could someone not just dislocate her should or break an arm and finally drive home the point this mixing for the sake of PC “equality” is bullsh1t?

[djf]

I haven’t read all the ins and outs of this story, but enough to have an opinion.

I say “Hats off!!” to this young man.

A man does not manhandle a lady. And he manhandles a woman only if he is under extreme duress.

Just my take on things.

[savagesusie]

Good for him.

Cultural Marxism denies God’s design of male and female. Marxists state there is no difference...so that is why we have women in the military and invading boy’s sports teams, although there is biological fact and reasoning that prove there is a difference. It is why Marxism is a joke—it ignores Natural Law Theory.

Marxism wants to destroy the family relationships. By putting women in combat they are destroying the “protective” role of man, because men will be trained to “kill” women or “hit” and regard them as the “same” in the fox holes. It is conditioning AGAINST the nature of man.

Marxists want to destroy the maternal connection between children and mothers. Feminism was founded by a communist Friedan. To destroy the family.

Lenin invented daycares—to create attachment and bonding disorders so children will never be able to make long and lasting attachments like in marriage. They will also be crappy mothers who will have no attachment to their offspring and not meet the demanding needs of infants creating dysfunctional, state-dependent people.

All prisoners were abused children, most had no biological father, and those that had mothers never got the attention and contact they needed to be emotionally healthy human beings.

Pathology in monkeys is caused by removing an infant from its mother. Those monkeys removed grow up to be anti-social, unable to mate and reproduce, are extremely aggressive and will kill and practice all sorts of abnormal behavior such as homosexuality.

Marxists understand psychology and they are out to destroy our country—not make it more “equitable”. Marxism takes the beauty, mystery, excitement, respect, romance, etc., out of sex and relationships. It makes us into nothing but “trousered apes and reduces sex to a vulgar, animal act.

So, this idea of no difference between a girl and boy is NONSENSE and the schools need to end the Marxist cr*p. Girls and Boys need DIFFERENT rules because they are DIFFERENT in biology. What fools are these politicians who try to REDESIGN man and woman into their own (godless) image and DENY NATURAL LAW which is the basis of our legal system.

[TheBattman]

I’m proud of this young man!

That being said- why is a girl wrestling boys in school wrestling?

[presently no screen name]

He really won and in more ways than if he did wrestle her.

Class act! Now every parent will want him to date their daughter eventually.

[Michael.SF.]

My son wrestled a girl when he was a freshman (she was a Sr). She was actually very good, and he lost to her in an early round of a tournament. He held back, he was nervous and she was more experienced. He was also devastated.

Later in the year, he came up against her again in a dual meet, at her school. This time he pinned her fairly quickly, his award from the crowd.......... he was booed loudly and long.

[GunRunner]

I was the 152 pounder on my high school team in the mid-90s. I never was put in that situation, but I knew two guys on our team that were.

The first was our 125 lbs. guy, and he had to wrestle a girl who was pretty damn good, so good in fact that she ended up pinning him in the second round. She actually made it to our regional tournament later that year. He never lived that down, but the girl on the mat hardly looked like a girl. This one in particular was skinny but toned, wore a swimmer's cap over her hair and a really tight sports bra. He was stronger than she was, but her technique was simply better.

Another buddy of mine wrestled at 135 lbs. and was matched against a girl back when he was on JV, and I remember him saying as he walked onto the mat that "this should be interesting."

He hip tossed her really hard and pinned her in about 15 seconds. He didn't feel the least bit bad about it.

I don't have an opinion one way or the other really, but I can say that there are no gender norming procedures on the mat. If you can hold your own there, you belong there.

Anybody who says that a wrestler's technique would suffer because he'd be afraid to grab her in certain places has simply never been on the mat. It goes by so fast and it's so intense that if you're wrestling a girl and you find that she's a match for you, you better do what it takes to win or else you'll have a permanent emotional scar.

The only time I've ever been in a similar situation was when I was training BJJ a couple of years ago. Out of about 15 guys there were two girls, one of whom was a blue belt, and a pretty good one. We drilled to where everybody rotated partners every few minutes, and I rolled with this little Russian girl who actually got me in a front collar choke, which is where you use the jiu jitsu gi collar flaps to choke the neck. I started to black out a little bit so I just slammed her on the mat until she let go. It certainly wasn't polite, but she wasn't there to play tennis; she was there to learn jiu jitsu.

If this girl can compete I don't see what the problem is.

I don't know why this guy felt he had to forfeit with a state championship on the line. These aren't sexual moves, and if a girl can make it to the state championship then she worked hard to get there, and she's probably kicked the crap out of plenty of guys on her way too.

Lastly, if the kid is home schooled, then why is he wrestling on a high school team?