(July 15, 2019 at 2:14 pm)tackattack Wrote: I get that you want it to be just about playing ball. But nothing I can think of is that black and white. People's beliefs, stigmas, opinions, and privilege play into almost everything we do. Unless you want coaches to all be robots, I don't see a solution that's cut and dry. I get that it should be done freely. Where does that freedom start? With the parent who signs up their child, the coach who huddles the team, the boy who wants to say a prayer? I don't agree that it should only be done by students. The line between personal expression of a belief and how it impacts others is still murky for me. I still feel intent plays the strongest role in making those lines. Do you disagree?
I didn't realize it was expecting coaches to 'act like a robot' to expect them not to lead their team in a prayer. Apparently I've been a 'robotic' cheerleading coach, because I've never once led my students in prayer or even mentioned god. (Or rather, a lackthereof, and how silly it is to believe in such nonsense)
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
