Posted on 01/02/2022 1:12:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
An Ohio high school football player who says coaches forced him to eat a pizza covered with pepperoni grease in violation of his religious beliefs is suing his former district and the ousted coaches.
The former Canton McKinley High School athlete and his parents filed a federal civil rights suit this week seeking millions of dollars in damages and alleging violations of his religious freedom and constitutional rights.
The athlete says in the lawsuit that coaches were notified he doesn’t eat pork or pork residue as a member of the Hebrew Israelite religious faith, but that they ordered him to eat the pizza as punishment for missing an offseason workout — and indicated his spot on the team was at risk if he didn’t.
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this sounds made up to me.
I admit i don’t believe in the religious food groups though.
I’m OK about this. The pizza part, not the money part.
You could NOT pay me enough to eat pizza. I detest the stuff. Also hate beer, chocolate and football. Nice Christian lady. I don’t eat pork because pigs are as smart as dogs, and I’d never eat your dog.
Is the dude related to Jussie Smollet?
I don’t think you have followed this story closely and are only seeing the slanted media version. But then that is not your fault for exercising your jumping to conclusions.
Weren’t these Black Hebrew Israelites mixed up in the “Lincoln Memorial Stabdoff”? (Nicholas Sandmann)
At my school cafeteria they dumped greasy hamburger meat (mostly gristle) cooked with canned tomatoes over a stale piece of white bread and called it “pizza”. No cheese. No seasoning.
I dont eat pepperoni but find it simple enough to remove them from a slice of pizza.
This racist, entitled player isn’t Jewish.
The “Hebrew Israelites”:are a vile, racist, satanic, hate group and cult who believe that Black people are the True Israelites. They refer to Whites as “White Devils”.
Don’t waste your sympathy on this cretin.
Are those like the ones who harassed the kid in DC?
For observant Jews, there would have been 2 violations, meat with milk and pork.
The coach may not have taken seriously that a black kid was Jewish.
They can sue for millions, but maybe settle for 4 figures.
regular pizza doesnt have pork
Couldn’t get him a cheese or veggie pizza?
I’m with you “eat the pizza as a punishment” makes 0 sense.
I’m betting they brought pizza in during training, forgot to get a vegetarian option l, and said take the pepperoni off or skip the meal.
How did the coach force him to eat pepperoni pizza? Did the coach tie him down?
These Black Hebrews have been around longer than Black Muslims. They are not at all accepted as Jewish by Jews.
“Hey, kid! Eat this pepperoni pizza or else!!”
I don’t have the kid’s problem so I’d say...”yes sir...where’s the beer?”
“How exactly does a coach ‘force’ someone to eat? Gunpoint? Open their piehole and shove it in?”
EITHER eat or you Don”t play
Nevertheless, they shouldn’t have forced him to eat something against his religion.
How do you cook it? Asking for a friend.
anti semitism is in the united states also
I am surprised no one has mentioned this yet..
Matthew 15...
[17] Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
[18] But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
[19] For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
[20] These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
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