Posted on 12/18/2021 6:49:05 PM PST by marshmallow
Athletics has long been an important part of Catholic education in the United States, but trouble is brewing.
Already schools and colleges face social and legal pressure to abandon their Catholic mission and conform to gender ideology by allowing biological males to play on girls’ sports teams and enter locker rooms.
Now, proposed changes to the constitution of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) could prevent Catholic colleges from participating in the premier league, unless it takes steps to protect Catholic education’s commitment to truth and religious freedom. At the moment, it seems the NCAA has no intention of doing that.
The hurried effort to update the NCAA constitution — with a vote expected on Jan. 20 — is prompted by legal issues concerning the commercialization of student-athletes, financial disparities among the association’s three divisions and calls for greater institutional autonomy. Still, the process could not avoid the political correctness of our time. The latest draft proposal includes a new provision demanding that colleges “comply with federal and state laws and local ordinances, including respect to gender equity, diversity and inclusion.”
That might seem harmless, to require compliance with the law. But then again, why is there a need to add such a provision, with specific reference to “gender equity, diversity and inclusion”? There is an agenda here that threatens religious institutions.
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Catholic and Christian colleges should start their own associations and allow the secular ones to either have to compete or wither on the vine.
Put your money where it belongs.
DONE
Sick, sick, sick!
The NCAA should worry about the rest of the schools dumping them and forming their own coalitions.
How many Catholic colleges are “really” Catholic?
I realize, of course, that that standard is diminishing as we speak.
The NCAA has long been too big for its britches, and has made a LOT of enemies along the way with its arrogance. I think a major tipping point was when recently they got it into their head that they can order entire *states* to conform to their doctrines.
Well, let’s see what happens.
What a great opportunity to form a Catholic league.
I was going to say the NCAA would not force out Notre Dame, but then remembered Notre Dame ceased being a Catholic institution years ago.
That would make the most sense. Same as complaining about Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for ‘censoring’ conservatives.
It’s their business concern. These are not at present seen as Public Utilies. Best choice is to create your own situation and put those conditions into the Bylaws.
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