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In reply to the discussion: Catholic school in Arizona forfeits championship baseball game because the other team has a girl! [View all]ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)173. then they would be right to call you a bigot as well
you see, at their core...almost all religions are 'intolerant'. if they weren't...there would be no separation of religions...it would be one big thing.
you don't need to respect anything, but let's be straight. there are plenty of people here who claim that religion is fine...as long as it is acceptable to them...otherwise they are, well, any number of choice vile terms. so, let's not claim tolerance when in fact we are not.
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Catholic school in Arizona forfeits championship baseball game because the other team has a girl! [View all]
Better Believe It
May 2012
OP
The kids didn't decide this. The adults at the school did and the adult coaches enforced it
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#108
What I'm okay with is dispelling institutionalized superstition and prejudice
Rittermeister
May 2012
#178
Its a discussion board. If you don't like your ideas/beliefs/irrationalities challenged
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#152
Religion, especially blatantly discriminatory religious belief gets no special respect on DU
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#110
You persist in calling DUers out for slamming the coach's reprehensible decision
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#153
Words being used to reference the school and coach's who are using bogus religious
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#160
Same group did this: (wouldn't allow a female ref to officiate a game in Kansas)
CreekDog
May 2012
#126
It's misleading to call this a Catholic school. It's part of a small, break-away sect. n/t
pnwmom
May 2012
#5
It's a catholic christian break-away religious sect. It just isn't recognized by the pope.
Better Believe It
May 2012
#12
And people that post here can call themelves supporters of all things Democratic, too.
Ikonoklast
May 2012
#15
Yes, they can call themselves what they wish. But the subject line was misleading,
pnwmom
May 2012
#16
They are catholics even if you disagree with their religion and choose to call them something else.
Better Believe It
May 2012
#18
So do you call the FLDS "Mormons" or LDS even though they are a break-away sect?
pnwmom
May 2012
#19
Yes I do. The post makes clear the school is "fundamentalist" that broke away from the Roman church
Better Believe It
May 2012
#26
It's a catholic christian school. You might not like or agree with this brand of catholic
Better Believe It
May 2012
#76
Because it's a catholic school. They aren't protestants, baptists or mormons.
Better Believe It
May 2012
#128
The Catholics are too busy "investigating" the Girl Scouts to mess with this. nt
PassingFair
May 2012
#72
Yes they may if that's what they are, but, they are not claiming that.
Better Believe It
May 2012
#78
Good suggestion. The team only needs one girl who can be put into the line-up for the game against
SDjack
May 2012
#14
Looks to me like you'd either respect her or she'd beat you to death with that baseball bat
TrogL
May 2012
#7
I guess they were upset because the lack of a bulge between the legs confused them?
Baitball Blogger
May 2012
#11
She had sat out two other games against this team out of respect for their beliefs.
Lochloosa
May 2012
#13
There was a girl wrestler this year in Iowa . The thought of that would have driven them crazy.
libinnyandia
May 2012
#24
Just like refusing to play against a team with Jackie Robinson on it, because he was black. nt
Zorra
May 2012
#29
So if their faith includes anti-semitism, you think we are hypocrites if we don't respect it?
CreekDog
May 2012
#167
One does not need to respect intolerant beliefs to support the right to belief and faith
Hippo_Tron
May 2012
#171
One can have separation of religion without discriminating on the basis of sex, race...
Hippo_Tron
May 2012
#174
In Kansas, with the same sect, the issue was "women having authority over men"
KamaAina
May 2012
#170
then they can lose for not being able to dictate another team's discrimination
CreekDog
May 2012
#37
Wrong. I completely support belief and faith --but not belief and faith in the indefensible
CreekDog
May 2012
#61
If you're going to be an apologist for everything a religion does, no matter how discriminatory...
CreekDog
May 2012
#105
Yep. "Hey, kids anyone want some of this kool-aid?" "Uh, no thanks, Reverend Jones, you drink it".
Zorra
May 2012
#70
I posted this story in Religion yesterday... didn't get nearly this much attention
Electric Monk
May 2012
#46
because it couldn't be anything other than 'keeping women in their place', could it?
ProdigalJunkMail
May 2012
#60
What the fuck do you think they mean when they say playing with girls means
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#73
So...by your thinking, if black boys were considered by this church/school to be too dainty to
Zorra
May 2012
#74
well would you be defending it if it weren't something done by a church school?
CreekDog
May 2012
#111
no, because a public school isn't allowed to discriminate in that way
ProdigalJunkMail
May 2012
#119
So it's OK for religions to sequester their daughters and then marry them off...
PassingFair
May 2012
#148
If one considers the extremely orthodox beliefs of this catholic group
Sen. Walter Sobchak
May 2012
#164
They should have forfeited well before game day then. Then the third place team could have played.
alphafemale
May 2012
#63
It seems like some of these uber religious wish is were Saudia Arabia. I think they all believe
Pisces
May 2012
#102
How can they call themselves Catholic when the article says they broke away from the church
Irishonly
May 2012
#123
Because there are millions of non-Roman catholics who do not follow the dictates of the pope.
Better Believe It
May 2012
#130
If the school didn't have a softball team and she is actully good enough to compete...
OneTenthofOnePercent
May 2012
#145