Posted on 05/09/2005 12:33:59 AM PDT by beaversmom
Edited on 05/09/2005 12:42:57 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Just wondering if this school only allows boys to dance with boys and girls to dance with girls.
Most likely that the Christian school does not permit dancing.
The boys have more respect for his daughter than the Episcopal priest does.
Mr. Connor's asinine desires notwithstanding, the forfeits are the only sanctions that can be imposed on these two schools. They can't be forced into making a boy wrestle if he declines to do so for whatever reason. But I'm confident an accomodating Judge will be found to order them to do exactly that. Oh sweet backlash, when are you coming?
The diagnosis is . . .he is a Liberal; the prognosis is. . .it is a chronic condition. . .outlook bleak; for the rest of us, that is.
LOL I never thought of that.
This is not about sex discrimination it is about religious freedom. Does a private Christian school have to suspend its belief that boy-girl wrestling is inmodest and a possible temptation to sexual sin in order to participate in an event in which they are recognized league members? Especially when that league allows forfeits for " any reason". The fact that these boys forfeit does not forbid the girls from wrestling- it only keeps her from wrestling these boys. How can such a narrow application be considered discrimination? Those people who live their faith should not have to treat their beliefs like some mad uncle which they must keep locked away for the safety of the common good. We have freedom of religion not FROM RELIGION.
This is not about sex discrimination it is about religious freedom. Does a private Christian school have to suspend its belief that boy-girl wrestling is inmodest and a possible temptation to sexual sin in order to participate in an event in which they are recognized league members? Especially when that league allows forfeits for " any reason". The fact that these boys forfeit does not forbid the girls from wrestling- it only keeps her from wrestling these boys. How can such a narrow application be considered discrimination? Those people who live their faith should not have to treat their beliefs like some mad uncle which they must keep locked away for the safety of the common good. We have freedom of religion not FROM RELIGION.
Connors, a former Episcopal president and one-time pastoral assistant for social justice at St. James Cathedral in Seattle, believes religion should play a role in public life. "But there's a limit," he said.
So we have a pervert supporter (episcopalian "social justice" type) demanding that Christian boys grope his daughter in public.
Why does this not surprise me?
Meaghan Connors didn't have to endure any forfeits herself this year. ... She told her father she felt degraded, like an "object of lust."
Young girl wants to roll around on a padded floor groping and being groped by the boys and she complains about being an object of lust? Is this what passes for intelligence in liberal land?
That is the exact core of the problem.
I had to deal with it first when my then-16-or17yob started in Karate. He had to spar some girls, wrestle, the whole nine. He and I both had qualms about it -- more from the perspective of the "beating up on a girl" deal. Now that I too have started karate, I've had to deal with the same issue PLUS that of "beating up on kids," since the closest to my height sometimes are 12, 15 years old. (Although in all truthfulness, at this point in my development, I'm far more often the beat-ee and the beat-er!)
The way we've both made peace with it is this: one purpose of the class is to teach these girls, these kids, to defend themselves. If all they spar is girls, or guys who hold back, they will in NO way be prepared for a real-life experience. Girls and kids aren't attacked by nice men who give them a pass.
So I'd be lying to you if I said I take any satisfaction in jabbing a girl, or seeing a kid backing away from me with an alarmed look on his face. But before God, if I learn one day that ONE girl/kid was able to hold his/her own with some miserable adult attacker in some degree because I'd given him/her an opportunity, in a safe and controlled environment, to face his/her fears and learn to defend himself/herself -- I'll be a very happy man.
Dan
"Ladies" don't wrestle.
Translate: "just another pig Neo-Stalinist disguised with a collar.."
I had a similar thought. Wrestling a girl who's your size is no trivial matter. She may not have your upper body strength, but she may have stronger legs than you. She's also balanced differently; she has a lower center of gravity. She's also done more wrestling with boys that you have with girls. A boy facing a girl for the first time could be at a serious disadvantage.
"It has been a co-ed sport in large part because too few girls participate to have their own leagues."
Why don't they countersue for the girls failing to sign up to wrestle in their own league? Isn't that equally discriminatory?
either way, the boys lose. If they win the match, then then beat up a girl. If they lose the match, then they lost to a girl.
I fail to see the "discrimination" in this case.
The girls on being told they are not allowed to wrestle boys, it's just 2 schools are not allowing their boys to fight girls. Big deal. Take the easy win and walk away. Quit whining.
Pretty good reason, if you ask me.
"wait till the girls are 15 and start dating...they will have ample opportunity to wrestle with boys....albeit in the back seat"
They'll call it vocational training for a later career involving mud, bikinis, drunken spectators,
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