The dark ages still exist in 21st century USA…..?

The Kansas City Star reported that veteran basketball referee Michelle Campbell was told that she couldn’t work the St Mary’s Academy boy’s high school basketball game because SHE IS A WOMAN.

The school’s reasoning:

That would be putting a woman in a position of authority over boys, a scenario that was contrary to beliefs at St. Mary’s Academy.

The school is owned and operated by the Society of St. Pius X, a group founded in 1970 in response to reforms that the Roman Catholic Church initiated with the Second Vatican Council. The group follows pre-Vatican II practices, such as the Latin Mass. Pope John Paul II excommunicated the society’s world leader, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, in the late 1980s.

Left unclear is whether the women teachers at the school have any control over the male students.

Wow, Just when you think you’ve heard everything….

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/487355.html

If this is a private institution and takes no government funds they are free to set their own rules. If they were Wiccans and espoused only Vegetarians would you have the same complaint? And what about the practice of Muslims openly marrying more than one wife? I don't see many objecting to that. One is married civilly and the others in the Mosque. It has been admitted that Sharia Courts are now operating in the UK.

Lapidation (death by Stoning) for Adultery is practiced by Sharia Courts. Two Sisters are sentenced to death by Stoning in Iran. Any comment on that??

You are a Christian bigot, or more properly a Catholic Bigot.

It is obvious to me. For the record I am a practicing Nichiren Buddhist. Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo

Private schools can be either forward or backward thinking.

I wonder if the little boys listen to their Moms.

C. :)

While this would be a sexist and unfair action against her, referring to it as the Dark Ages is rather exaggerating not being able to coach basketball. Now had they strung her up from the backboards, called her a witch and murdered her for her pagan ways, It might be more applicable a metaphor.

If they are a part of a local league, I'm sure that such a decision would be violating league rules.

Furthermore. since the school is participating in competition with other schools, they obviously want their students to interact with the real world; they can't have it both ways.

i don't see what it has to do with the Dark Ages, which was an era in which there were plenty of powerful women. Read Bede's 'Ecclesiastical history of th eenglish people' for a look at this era, strong women abound in his book. they used to have double monasteries of monks and nuns which were presided over by an Abbess, like the formidable Hilda of Whitby for instance, I'd like to see any basketball team try and push her around.

And, re the comment above, they didn't burn witches in the Dark Ages, that came much later, during the 16th and 17th centuries, the era of the so-called 'Renaissance'.

You have to remember that some adults in the US have lost their mind when it come to their kids and sports. Travel basketball teams form clubs and associations. They are willing to travel hundreds of miles to play other teams. LeRon James started playing with one of these teams when he was 12. By the time he was 16, his family with little income was given a scholarship to a private school, parents was moved to a nice house, Mother was loaned an SUV and gas money. Just so he could go to a certain school to play basketball.

These schools, 90% private with a religious base do not have to follow boundaries and recruit players like colleges. But the schools deal with parents to keep the student NCAA eligable.

At that point the private schools can dictate their agenda as they see fit. Just another thing gone amiss..

Big whoop. So she can't coach basketball. It's probably better for a man to be coaching a bunch of male teenage athletes anyways. They are a religious school following the tenets of their faith. They are free to do that. If you don't like it, don't send your kids there, 'kay? But to call it the Dark Ages....*slight* exaggeration there.

That's really odd reasoning, considering there are female teachers there who are in positions of authority over boys, according to the article. (I like what Char said too, wonder if they listen to their moms!)

This coming from a school started by a society who's leader was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, I'm hardly surprised.

When it comes to the Catholic Church there is not much that can surprise me. Just when you always think you have seen it all they rise to the occasion.

It is an RC school, what do you expect - consistency and fairness?

I don't think so!

It is a private school. Their attendance will reflect the support of the parents. If the parents support this belief they have the right to. If a private organization wants to impose such sexist rules, they sadly have the right to. But you can be assured hell would be raised if that happened in a public school.