Using the Bible to keep girls in “their place”

[CatWoman]

As you can see from the video above, 14-year-old Kacy Stuart has some serious game. That’s an impressive performance by a young high school freshman of any gender. I coached girls’ soccer for a lot of years, and you don’t see that kind of talent often.

Unfortunately, Kacy has become famous not for her leg but her gender. Initially, she was barred from playing in the Georgia Football League, comprising teams of home-schoolers and small Christian academies, because she’s a girl. She was reinstated by the league only after the threat of a lawsuit.

That part of the story is fairly familiar, repeated elsewhere around the country in recent years in schools both public and private. But it took a twist last weekend when Kacy returned to the field for her first game with her New Creation team only to meet objections by her opponents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3K6iZXHGo

“The East Atlanta Mustangs didn’t play us under protest but they were allowed to read a statement on their beliefs about female football players,” according to New Creation coach, Coach Ken Townley. “They used biblical verses from the book of Romans. I was very stunned by that.”

I read through Romans looking for anything about female football kickers and found nothing. My best guess is that the Mustangs cited Romans 1:26, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.”

The next team on New Creation’s schedule, the Bartow Generals, have bowed out for unspecified reasons.

Some may see this as a story about Christian intolerance, but that’s a gross and unfair generalization. There are Christians on both sides of the issue, and in fact I suspect that most Christians would support letting young Kacy play.

But the story does illustrate how easily Scripture can be abused by those seeking justification for their own narrow personal beliefs. Because as you can see below in this interview with Ellen DeGeneres, there is nothing “unnatural” — whatever that means — about young Kacy.

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/10/21/and_if_you_want_to.html

[BlueJazz]

1. The Bible...Huh?? ....Yeah..That's a great Logical Source >>>>

"... I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." -- Genesis 32:30

"No man hath seen God at any time..."-- John 1:18
"... with God all things are possible." -- Matthew 19:26


OR

"... with God all things are possible." -- Matthew 19:26

"...The LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." -- Judges 1:19


OR

"The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father..." -- Ezekiel 18:20

"I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation..." -- Exodus 20:5

[Bunny]

2. Buncha boys scared to get their asses kicked by a *gasp* girl!!

:rofl:

[carlyhippy]

3. yep, the girl is going to show all those boys how it's done haha

hope she sticks to it and doesn't bow down in the slightest, I saw her kick, she is good, probably why all those boys aren't wanting to play, she is going to show them up

[gratuitous]

4. No, it's not about "Christian" intolerance

It's about intolerance that's so scared, it has to hide behind the Bible or the flag or something else because it's too afraid to stand on its own. Without a specious appeal to authority, the bigotry stands naked and can't abide scrutiny. Also, it has a very tiny penis, of which it is mortally ashamed.

[damntexdem]

5. Bend it like Beckham.

Of course, the good Georgia objectors would not enjoy being compared to intolerant British Muslims.

[fed_up_mother]

6. We've taught our sons never to hit or abuse girls

from the time they were little boys. I can't imagine one of my sons aggressively sacking a girl on the football field. He just wouldn't do it, and it would put his team at a disadvantage. It has nothing to do with religion.

I guess that makes us not very politically correct.