Here’s a few stories to check out while you figure out where you’re going to watch tomorrow night’s Jets-Patriots game…

+ In case you missed it, Kacy Stuart’s dad responded to the story we posted the other day (Kacy is the 14-year old girl who kicks for her high school football team). Here was the response he posted in our comments:

Thanks 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.

+ The Baylor University Baseball Team traveled to Houston last weekend with CORE (Christians Organized for Relief Efforts) to help clean debris left over from Hurricane Ike.

+ Stephen Baldwin talks about the Assalt Arena Tour he is setting up this year.

“I went to a large Christian festival three years ago and I saw a pretty amazing skateboarding and BMX bicycle stunt show,” says Baldwin. “The athletes themselves were sharing their Christian experiences with the crowd. With the global impact that extreme sports has been having for over a decade now it made me put two and two together and say to myself, wouldn’t it be interesting to try to create an extreme sports evangelistic tour?”

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)