Using the Bible to keep girls in “their place”

[Are_grits_groceries]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsS-e_a4LPw (EllenD)

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.

“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.”

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

Dumbasses!

[HockeyMom]

1. My daughter started playing ice hockey (Defense)

on a boys team. Yes, checking and all. She was the only girl on the HS Freshman team. By the time she graduated there were 7 other girls playing on various levels.

This was 10 years ago now.

[amdezurik]

2. the real reason they forfited

was she scared the shit out of them and the boys were too cowardly to lose to a girl.

[fed_up_mother]

3. I doubt it. The real reason they forfeited is because they refuse to tackle a girl

I would not want my son sacking a female kicker, and if you can't sack her as aggressively as you could a male kicker, her team probably has an advantage. If that makes me politically incorrect, so be it. A couple of guys sacking this girl could do some serious damage. I'd like to know why in the hell she's allowed to play such a rough game at her age! Most growing young men shouldn't even be playing football, and I say that as a sports fan.

[enuegii]

4. Sacking the kicker is called roughing the kicker...

and is against the rules. As long as she is of similar size and strength to other kickers, what's the problem?