{"id":197306,"date":"2008-02-14T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/taliban-style-catholicsgo-after-high-school-sports\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:38:00","slug":"taliban-style-catholicsgo-after-high-school-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/taliban-style-catholicsgo-after-high-school-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Style CatholicsGo After High School Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Kansas<sup>*<\/sup>, a religious high school <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/highschool\/02\/13\/female.official.ap\/index.html?cnn=yes\">refused to allow a female referee to officiate at their game<\/a>, because they did not believe that women should <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ever<\/span> have authority over men.<\/p>\n<p>To the credit of then Kansas State High School Activities Association, they are in the process of considering banning St. Mary&#8217;s Academy from any sporting events with their members schools if this is actually their policy.<\/p>\n<p>They should do so, and they so should <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do so for non sports activities too<\/span>.  Whether that be beauty contests, band competitions, car washes, or educational conferences.<\/p>\n<p>These people are the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">real<\/span> American Taliban, and any accomodation will encourage more extreme demands.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">You know, Kansas would be the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;\" >last<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> place that I would expect this.   So say we all, by the might of the <a href=\"http:\/\/venganza.org\/\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kansas*, a religious high school refused to allow a female referee to officiate at their game, because they did not believe that women should ever have authority over men. To the credit of then Kansas State High School Activities Association, they are in the process of considering banning St. Mary&#8217;s Academy from any sporting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,968,1021,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-education","category-religion","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}