Girl Commits Sin By Playing High School Football?
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According to this Atlanta Journal Constitution article, when 14-year old Kacy Stuart recently took the field for the New Creation Center Crusaders against the East Atlanta Mustangs, she was met with a pregame statement from the opposing coach, read over the intercom.
Kacy, a 14-year-old freshman, didn’t hear the entire statement, but it was these final words, a quote from Romans 12:2, that took her by surprise: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
The passage, while vague to some, has been interpreted by others as a warning against Christians conforming to un-Christian ways of the world. In the case of Kacy, its about girls playing a physical sport with boys.
According to the story, Mustangs coach Alan Hawkins issued the statement because he “believed strongly that men should honor women, not hit them.” Apparently “honoring them” also includes embarrassing them in public and not allowing them to compete with the boys.
What do you guys think? Anyone have a problem with a girl playing high school football? What about the use of scripture in this instance? Read the story and let us know what your take is.
(AJC.com)
Please! I don’t even know what to say but hyperfundementalism at its worst
November 10th, 2008 at 6:53 pmI’m the oldest of five kids – four boys and then a girl. My sister grew up playing hockey with her brothers and is happy to lay a check on anyone, anytime. Now, the protective big brother in me would encourage her to stay off the ice if she got to the point where she was physically outmatched and in greater danger of injury… but that hasn’t happened yet.
A sin? Certainly not. Besides, that 14-year-old is the kicker on the football team. If they hit her, it’s a penalty.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:09 amAbsolutely ri-di-cu-lous. At least in football there’s pads and such. Girls wrestling boys is even more odd.
But Romans 12:2? Surprised he didn’t break out Exodus 21. Apparently, as long as the girl is not a player’s mother or pregnant then game on!
If a girl wants to play football, let her play. If my daughter could kick better than the boys, I would send her on the field.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:09 amThat’s absurd.
I grew up in a Christian school. One year in soccer (no football team…) we played a school that was too small to have an all-guy soccer team. I think there were 3 girls on it. We didn’t know until the day of the game, and though nobody thought it wrong or evil (or worthy of a public misrepresentation of Scripture), it did throw us off our game.
We were not as aggressive when the girls got the ball, and the other team was glad to take advantage of that. At halftime our coach told us to forget all we had ever learned about how to treat women and to play like they were guys (with certain other features).
We ended up winning (barely), and we never played them again. Honestly, I’m glad that we didn’t have to do that more than once.
November 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pmYou know, Ron, that reminds me – we have an all-girls team in our work basketball league. It’s the most awkward thing trying to figure out how to defend them….
November 11th, 2008 at 2:08 pmBe all over them like you’d be all over a guy. Whatever that means.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:53 pmHey, let’s face it, I don’t play defense quite *that* tight. Mostly it’s awkward when blocking out and posting up. OTOH, most of them are short enough that I don’t really have to block out or post up… just reaching up usually does the trick.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:43 pmSo, check it out:
In my hometown there was a chick quarterback on one of the high school football teams, and she sucked. She couldn’t throw worth beans, she missed the hike half the time, and she tripped over her own feet enough to get sacked at least once per game.
However, her parents threatened to sue, so the school was forced to keep her on the team. I don’t think they won a single game until she graduated.
So my rule for girls playing sports is the same as for women in law enforcement: If they can keep up, let them play. If my guy friends start a game of pickup football, I’ll probably join in, because I can play decently well. But I wouldn’t try out for the high school team (even though I wanted to) because I knew that I wouldn’t make it.
Same thing for women cops. Don’t change the rules for them- make them keep up with the men. A suspect is not going to slow down because he knows a woman is chasing him. If she is buff enough to take ‘em down, let her do it.
I think the greater sin here is the blatant misuse of Scripture. If the girl is “conforming” to the world, why isn’t the rest of the team also committing that sin? I don’t remember Romans 12:1 being directed only at women.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:15 pmThanks for the comments. I am Kacys dad. The underlying reason appears not to be religion here. It appears to me that it is a crutch being used by 2 or 3 of the board members of the GFL. Kacy was reinstated, and played in her 2nd game(state quarter finals) on November 8th. There were no rules against girls being allowed to play, contrary to some reports. We all know that in bylaws even for private schools athletics, exclusions have to be listed, IF you want to exclude a particular group of people. Once Kacy made the team, they were appalled that a female was on one of the teams. Having nothing in the rules to back them up, (and i may add weeks later) come up with this prophecy that it is against their christian beliefs that she should compete. By the way, the Mustangs coach, to which Kacy played against in her first game, was unable to field a kicker to kick the pat. Real hard to make the argument that a girl shouldn’t be kicking when you cant field a guy to make a 20 pat huh.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:51 am