The Our Lady of Sorrows
baseball team in Phoenix, Arizona, has refused to enter into the Arizona State
baseball championship game with the Mesa Arizona Preparatory Academy because
the Mesa team has a girl starting at second base. Our Lady of Sorrows decided that playing the
game would violate the school's mission to teach boys and girls separately.
Of course, you have to
wonder if the Sorrows team did not know that girls could play in the league in the first
place. If they could, then the Sorrows
team had the option not to participate.
The fact that they did participate in the whole season would indicate to
me that they agreed to the rules of the league.
If they reached the championship game and were faced with the Academy
team that had a girl on it, and then elected to refuse to play the championship
game, what they are saying to me is that they wanted to force their own
standards against the league in which they participated.
It was kind of like an
attempt at blackmail: either the Academy drops the girl from the game roster,
or we won’t play. The girl, in the
interest of the spirit of the game of baseball, had agreed to sit out two
previous games against the same team; but, since she worked so hard to help her
team reach the championship game, she decided not to sit that game out.
Now, folks are trying to
transfer blame to her for the Sorrows team not paying the championship
game. Her team is upset because they win
by default as a result of forfeit; they wanted to win for real. The other team is upset because she wanted to
play the championship game in a league that allowed female players.
What a sad commentary to have
to write in a day and age when the country has a President who chooses to sanction gay
marriage.
That’s MY AMERICAN
OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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