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02-21-2008, 12:16 AM
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Referee benched for being a woman.
A female referee is told that she cannot officiate over a boy's basketball game at a private religious academy, because their rules state that a woman can not be in a position of power over a man.
Yahoo!
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Last edited by Nanda; 02-21-2008 at 12:20 AM. 
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02-21-2008, 08:11 AM
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At least they are taking their religious teachings seriously.
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02-21-2008, 08:15 AM
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WOW. Those boys are being set up for gender discrimination lawsuits when they reach a position of authority inside the work force. I don't want to imagination how they will treat their fellow female co-worker or even their wife. How will they treat their mother when they become "adults?"
Was this game against a public school? If so...how does a religious school's policy trump public school and there-by federal law at the same time?
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02-21-2008, 08:17 AM
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02-21-2008, 12:18 PM
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That's incredibly stupid, but it's the kind of thing you'd expect from the Society of St. Pius X, which considers the Pope a raving modernist.
I'm glad to see in the Kansas City Star that the two male refs walked off the court with her, though. (www.kansascity.com | 02/12/2008 | Removal of woman referee by religious school has some crying foul)
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02-21-2008, 01:22 PM
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As a Christian, I have to say they are wrong. It doesn't actually say in the Bible that women can't be in a "power" position over a man. In fact, In the OT, they had a Judge (a ruler) named Deborah who ruled over the Israelites for many years. Deborah even had a husband.
But who am I to tell what to do at their institution. Judges 4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
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Last edited by ChristineES; 02-21-2008 at 01:24 PM.
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02-21-2008, 03:34 PM
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That's really not right. They neeed to realise men and women have equal parts in our world, and one cannot be rejected in any field if they wish to participate, or undertake.
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02-21-2008, 03:51 PM
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I hate to say this, but about every person I've met that went to a Catholic high school I thought had a rather jaded personality. Not that they were necessarily bad or mean(although some definitely were), just different.
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02-21-2008, 03:54 PM
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Religious organizations are free to discriminate in this way - it's an exception to Title VII, I believe.
Not saying I agree with it.
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02-21-2008, 06:48 PM
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Crazy Catholics. What's next, the father will burst in on the son and his wife having sex and yelling "don't use that condom!"?
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