Posted on 05/10/2012 1:11:45 PM PDT by servo1969
A state championship high school baseball game is over before tonight's first pitch, after one Arizona team forfeited rather than play an opponent with a girl in the lineup.
Our Lady of Sorrows refused to play Mesa Preparatory Academy in Thursday’s scheduled Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship game, because that team has Paige Sultzbach at second base. The 15-year-old agreed to sit out a pair of regular season victories over Our Lady of Sorrows, which is run by the Society of St. Pius X, an traditionalist church that broke away from Roman Catholic Church over Vatican reforms in 1970. But with everything on the line tonight, Sultzbach wasn't willing to stay glued to the bench — even if it means no game at all.
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In a statement to FoxNews.com, an Our Lady of Sorrows official said the school had no choice but to forfeit because it has a strict policy prohibiting participation in co-ed athletics and believes in "forming and educating boys and girls" separately.
“Teaching our boys to treat ladies with deference, we choose not to place them in an athletic competition where proper boundaries can only be respected with difficulty,” the statement read. "Our school aims to instill in our boys a profound respect for women and girls."
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Well wouldn’t it make sense to respond to him instead of me, especially considering you didn’t read who or what I was responding to?
Sara, you ignorant, sexist hick! That's idiotic. Why are you oppressing women? Fascist! Are you some kind of pervert priest-protecting bishop?
Not really, since your comments in the post I was responding to definitely had the same sort of tenor to them.
Neanderthal, LOL!
You're welcome to keep spinning this around, but I believe that they have the right to exercise their beliefs, however they want to. If the school was trying to claim a win or a tie because the other team wouldn't follow their rules and ban the girl from playing, that'd be imposing their beliefs on others, and I'd be against it.
But so long as they are exercising their freedom of association, and conforming to their rules, as well as the rules of the association they're playing in, I don't see anything wrong with what they did.
A win is a win.
There's no relevance to the topic at hand and nobody cares.
If you want to throw your lot in with the group here that argues that co-ed sports are a tool of communism and that women are so physically weak that they should never participate in any co-ed sports, then go ahead. But it might help if you read the topics and discussions at hand and responded appropriately to the right people.
Would you send your wife or daughter off to combat?
Just another sport, right?
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Completely demonstrates your lack of perspective on this. Women in combat really is quite a different issue than a female 2nd baseman on a high school team.
Put down your hammer, this ain’t a nail. Really.
That has had a negative effect on the work place and in our military.
sorry that I offended you .. I’ll try harder next time.
That’s fine. In turn, I pretty much put all of my female colleagues to shame intellectually.
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You know, on an anonymous internet forum, that is just f’in hilarious. So you don’t measure much up to the men, eh? So sorry to hear that.
I know, right. I am just so old fashioned.
Not to an athlete.
OK champ, have fun at the Ramrod.
You’re the second example of some guy bragging about how you out-grappled a girl one time. Are you really so testicularly challenged that you had to interject that in a discussion about a teenage female second baseman?
There’s no relevance to the topic at hand and nobody cares.
To answer the questionL yes, his extreme arrogance is obvious and to be pitied.
That has had a negative effect on the work place and in our military.
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Pretty much puts us, at best, in an agree to disagree spot. I have zero issue with women in the workplace doing the same work as us men.
So should men in the workplace follow your model of intentionally injuring them as you suggested they do on the athletic field? Like maybe starting rumors about them sleeping their way to top? Or that they are bitches?
Really?
Seriously buddy, you are an embarrassment. Your idea of defending your gender bigotry is relaying a story of how you beat some chick in wrestling. You must have absolutely no idea how pathetic you sound.
As for you being more intelligent than every female you meet? Bwahahahahahhah!!!! All that tells us is that you work with morons and I work with brilliant women. What does that say about you and me??
Sounds like a bunch of guys who can’t get laid to save their life.
Women have a negative effect on the workplace, now. Good God, I am in the midst of the worst FreeRepublic has to offer.
The point of sports is to win. They won. Time to grab the trophy eat the pizza.
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