The link tells it most of everything you need to know about it, except for the fact that the Girl mentioned is a fifteen year old on her high school baseball team.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/10/phoenix-school-forfeits...
This is one of the tings I have considered about my story Baseball Rose, how other schools would react to Melanie and Jay on the team. Apparently my thoughts on the subject, which would have come out later, were not too far off.
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That's not respect for women or girls
Respect would have required them to play. How can you respect someone by refusing to allow them to do what they do? Respect like that is the same as the stuff that comes out of the backend of a farm animal.
And that's not religion at that point, they had agreed to compete in a league that allowed female players; therefore they had already set aside their religious rule. A potential female player is the same as an actual one for the purpose of a rule like that. A co-ed league is a co-ed league whether it has female players at the moment or not. The league should erase their record and let the runner-up team compete in the championship game because they had agreed to league rules by competing in the first place.
Freedom of religion means freedom of religion, not freedom to enforce your rules on other people. And refusing to play in the championship game was enforcing their rules on the other team. Once they had agreed to play, they had agreed to give up their religious rule for the sake of all the other teams.
The mistake the other team made was letting the girl sit out two games in the regular season. That was not respecting their religion, that was giving in to political blackmail. Because this wasn't about religion, it was about political power in the league.
Religious freedom does not mean you can treat some other people as less than you are in any significant way. You can talk about it but at the point where you take action, you have crossed a line.
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
My sentiments
Exactly
He entered the hall to get warm. She left it two hundred years later.
Faeriemage
My thoughts exactly. Saless
My thoughts exactly.
Saless
"But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend." - Eddie Murphy, Coming To America
Yeah,
Very Well Said, Erin!
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
Important to note....
As is stated in the article, the school is run by a group known as the Society of St. Pius X. They are in schism with the Roman Catholic church as headed by Pope Benedict XVI. As a group they are ultra-traditionalist and make the Pope himself look like a Protestant! Some members of this group make claims that Roman Catholic Church as headed by Benedict is actually a heretical group, and that Pope Benedict is actually part of a plot by Protestant Masons to destroy the Catholic Church.
There is nothing in mainstream Catholicism that says that a team cannot compete against a team with a girl on it.
I may be a lesbian, but I am also a Catholic who still attends Church every Sunday and struggles with the dichotomy in my situation, and I can tell you, this teams actions are out in left field as far as Catholic teaching goes! Heck, in my grade school the nuns taught gym class, and the boys and girls had it together!
Trap
I am relegious
I am also religious, and condemn any group for actions that are as bigoted as those of this church. I do not blame any group, other than the one herein depicted. Believe me.
It is just sad that there are still groups out there who feel that there is such a difference between he individual capabilities and outcomes of individuals.
He entered the hall to get warm. She left it two hundred years later.
Faeriemage