Posted on 02/15/2008 9:38:43 AM PST by DaveyB
Kansas activities officials are investigating a religious school's refusal to let a female referee call a boys' high school basketball game. The Kansas State High School Activities Association said referees reported that Michelle Campbell was preparing to officiate at St. Mary's Academy near Topeka on Feb. 2 when a school official insisted that Campbell could not call the game. The reason given, according to the referees: Campbell, as a woman, could not be put in a position of authority over boys because of the academy's beliefs. Campbell then walked off the court along with Darin Putthoff, the referee who was to work the game with her. "I said, 'If Michelle has to leave, then I'm leaving with her,"' ... If that is indeed the school's written policy, Musselman said, the association could decide to remove St. Mary's Academy from the list of approved schools and take away its ability to compete against the association's more than 300 member schools. St. Mary's Academy officials declined comment when contacted by The Associated Press on Wednesday. St. Mary's Academy is among 30 schools on the list that are not full association members but compete against schools that are. Musselman said St. Mary's Academy plays one or two games per season against member schools but has no more scheduled this school year. He said if removed from the approved list for next school year, St. Mary's Academy still would be able to compete against approved schools that are not members of the association. ...Putthoff said he has called games at St. Mary's Academy off and on for 10 or 12 years, but doubts he will officiate at the school again. "Out of defense to Michelle, I'm probably going to decline to go back there," he said. "We have to support our fellow officials." ...
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We only discriminate with those that discriminate, but that's not discrimination because we don't agree with their discrimination!
Hmm, I wonder if the school lets the kids’ mothers have authority over them.
Oh that is intolerant bull(bleep)
Matt 6:64 “Women shall not officiate basketball games”
With people with these sorts of beliefs, the mothers are covered by the father’s headship.
Not my beliefs but I like to give everyone room and not discriminate against Christians who are very conservative.
If these people were Moslems, there would have been easier accomodation.
Is this the St. Mary’s served by the SSPX?
They basically claim that they are an old-fashioned Catholic high school that does things the pre-Vatican II way (in reality they are a schismatic splinter group excommunicated by the Pope, but I'm giving their spin).
Before 1962, nuns routinely exercised authority over young men. As did lay teachers. As did their mothers, their grandmothers, their aunts, their sisters, etc.
If they were Muslims, the state officials would be licking the soles of their shoes.
Indeed.
Well, let’s use their own arguments.
Standard fundamentalist position is that mothers only have authority over their children thru the father’s leadership.
So, by analogy, if the head of the referee’s association is a man, then he’s delegated authority to the referees who may include women.
True, but kowtowing to Muslims is wrong, too.
A story from just a few years ago...
I was in an inner city Catholic boy’s high school and observed 2 boys start to push each other around. Things were starting to go downhill when we all heard, from way down the hall, a smacking sound. We all looked in that direction and down the hall is marching a tiny geriatric nun smacking a ruler against the palm of her hand, saying, “excuse me young men!”. Those two big boys, one over 6’ tall, meekly stood there while she dressed them down and sent them off to the disciplinarian.
I laughed my butt off - it was great.
Indeed. All that she would have needed to do was to inform either of the boys' parents that she had been disrespected by them, and their fathers would have extracted an appropriate penance from their hides.
Those were the good old days - I caught the very tail-end of them (when I was in 1st grade the nuns all wore habits and there were about six or seven of them - by the time I was in 8th grade there were two plainclothes neonuns and no others).
ROTFLMPO!!!
It is amazing how far a simple “assumption of authority” can go, isn’t it?
Our society needs more of this.
I am not proud to say I got caught doing something that Sister Mary Raymond, my 8th grade teacher, thought was inappropriate. I was about 5’4” 160 at the time, she was about 5’2” probably 180(hard to tell under all that black robe) and built like a Bears LB. She took me out in the hall and literally pushed me against the wall and lifted my feet off the ground and read me the riot act. She then called my parents in explained the infraction and when I got home I got an attitude adjustment from my dad. I will never forget that incident. How times have changed.
Williamson is also an ardent MIHOPer.
Sounds like the First Church of the Groady Death and the Discount House of Worship .... what morons .... sixth century Christians no doubt ......
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