I know that this happened in TOPEKA KANSAS, home of the Phelps family but this should still raise a hue and cry.
DS1 posted this in LBN:
Removal of woman referee by religious school has some crying foul
Source: The Kansas City Star
Just minutes before tip-off, basketball referee Michelle Campbell was ready to take the court. Shoes laced up, shirt tucked in, whistle in hand.
Then she noticed the discussion between her officiating partner and the school’s athletic director.
Finally, Campbell got the news: She wouldn’t be officiating the boys’ high school basketball game. Because she’s a woman.
The game was at St. Mary’s Academy, a private religious school that sits on a sprawling campus about 25 miles northwest of Topeka. Before the game started, a school administrator approached Campbell’s officiating partner, Darin Putthoff of Topeka, and told him a woman could not serve as referee.
That would be putting a woman in a position of authority over boys, he was told — a scenario that was contrary to beliefs at St. Mary’s Academy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3180968 The school calls their teams, not to surprisingly, "The Crusaders." Wonder how they'd feel about a MUSLIM, or a JEW officiating.
Now I want you to think VERY CAREFULLY about this, an action by a Fundamentalist Religious group ("...the Society of St. Pius X, an international society of traditional Roman Catholic priests. The society generally disdains the modern reforms to Catholic teachings and rites made by the Second Vatican Council...") which holds one of those "...honestly held beliefs..." that I keep hearing about...
And I want you to REMEMBER this the next time you want to excuse either of the front runners when they talk about how we have to respect THEIR or SOMEBODY ELSE'S Religious Beliefs that certain "people" are not allowed full participation in this society. This goes to the HEART of this issue: if some group can minimize people of a certain sex (or belief, or orientation) then they can be excused for say, not having a JEW participate in society because "THEY KILLED CHRIST!" or a MUSLIM, or a Homosexual, or a LEFT HANDED PERSON (I mean, we ALL know that SATAN was cast out on the LEFT HAND OF GOD...), or a LIBERAL.
Call your Candidate, WHOEVER THEY ARE, call your legislator, call the NEWS, but DO SOMETHING other than make excuses about "...honestly held beliefs..."
I'm certain that the NAZIS had "...honestly held beliefs..." was of great relief to the inmates of AUSCHWITZ.