Just minutes before she was scheduled to referee a boy's varsity basketball game at St. Mary's Academy, Michelle Campbell was told she would not be allowed to work the game because she is a woman.
Just how does being a woman impair her ability to be a ref?
St. Mary's Academy, near Topeka, Kan., is a controversial religious school that follows older Roman Catholic laws, but many argue that religious beliefs does not give the school the right to discriminate.
I agree with that. Cosmically speaking, isolating males from females is a very bad thing to do.
Apparently, they were thinking of this biblical passage.
A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
Of course, the bible also has a lot of other things that are wrong with it. But that doesn't stop people from believing in it anyway.
St. Mary's Academy is not technically a Catholic school. It's owned and operated by the Society of St. Pius X, which strictly adheres to Roman Catholic laws. The society's world leader, the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II in the late 1980s.
Leave it to the dead pope to be the one to have a lick of sense.
"I've officiated both boys and girls and there never seemed to be a problem," Campbell said.
This one is just idiocy in action.
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