Who knows? All I know is that they are clearly more than three dudes.
Bolding mine. This is not a technical violation, it’s a violation, period. People who follow religious instruction about eating habits do not take them lightly. In his sect he probably has an “under duress” rule that allows it. Much like how Jewish people are allowed to eat pork if the only other option is starving.
Look at the Sepoy Rebellion and see how much trouble it caused the Brits when both Hindu and Muslim soldiers believed their ammunition was greased with beef or pork .
So why haven’t these coaches been charged with a hate crime yet?
Wait for it.
It’s Ohio. Remember when some high school football players raped a girl and some staff helped cover it up, including the superintendent of schools? It’s the fucking third world.
My old school has 1,000 students. No way it has 12 paid football coaches. (I’ve actually asked on the town FB page, but no reply yet.)
Look at the picture. I don’t know if they’re paid or not (or why that matters), but there are 12 adults in the team photo.
The freaking softball team has four coaches.
I think it’ll happen. Conservative Christians have spoken up in defense of other non-Christian religion in the past. They’re smart enough to understand that any defense of religious rules against secular authorities will benefit them.
In the recent past, after Trump became God’s Other Son?
I said Conservative Christians. The Trump crowd is a whole nother outfit.
They’re not all total hypocrites, even if most of them are.
Texas was kicking around that new law that would hold women guilty of capital murder if they had an abortion. IIRC, I saw an article saying that at least one vocal anti-abortion group came out against that law because they are also against capital punishment. Imagine that!
I think we’re actually in pretty much complete agreement.
Yeah, I struggled with that phrasing. I couldn’t off-hand come up with a better way to phrase it. The point I was making was that if the coaches’ intent was to force the player specifically to eat pork, it seems really odd that they would then allow him to not eat pork, but only force him into what, from an outsider’s perspective, might seem like a technical violation.
I think you’re right that some will, but they aren’t really representative of people identifying as Christian Conservatives anymore. It’s not about a new law or something as serious as wearing masks that concerns the modern Conservative Christian, and it is about a religious practice that is not well known and will easily become a political target. I’m not surprised this hasn’t received national coverage that I’ve seen, we may have a deafening silence from across the spectrum because this is not one of the pre-packaged political issues with a set of talking points for both sides to work from.
Football coaches decide to throw a pizza party, and are too lazy and unimaginative to think that anyone would not want pepperoni, and so order nothing but pepperoni. One team member complains that he can’t eat this pizza due to religious dietary proscriptions. Possibly asks if the coaches could order something without pork, otherwise he will have to go hungry.
Coaches are unmoved by the kid’s complaint, writes him off as whining, and tells him to just “pick off the pepperoni” - unable to wrap their meager coach brains around the idea of “religious proscription”. After all, their (Christian) religion has no such issues, so what’s the problem?
Bigotry from ignorance, or at least, that’s my speculation. These coaches could use some sensitivity training - at their next job.
Wow, you couldn’t even be bothered to read anything in this thread, or a single linked article?
The kid was forced to eat an entire pepperoni pizza in front of the rest of the team, over his religious objections, because he skipped a “voluntary” training session. Which if nothing else means the entire coaching staff should be banned from any sort of position in a school ever again, since they have no fucking idea what the word “voluntary” means.
I have read it. I’m just speculating on the genesis. I make no claims on truth here. I’ve known these kinds of assholes all of my life, and they have the uncanny ability to take any slight and escalate it into an “us vs. them (or him)” situation. Couple that with the authority of being a coach, and bigoted assholes cannot conceive that their actions are improper.
Not knowing what “voluntary” means is just more grist for the “stupid bigots” mill.
Again, just idle speculation. Do with it what you will.
They coaches get their definition of “voluntary” from the same dictionary the cell phone companies get their definition of “unlimited”.
I like to think that the pizza was served by a waitress who was currently feuding with her boss over what the “minimum” amount of flair she was expected to wear was.
At least this part worked out right. Hopefully they will not get several years wages for a severance package.
Not a big fan of piling charges on people but I would like to see if a federal civil rights case would work here. Are teachers/coaches considered government employees in a case like this? A government employee violating some ones civil rights seems like a doubly-plus bad thing.
What I’m trying to say is I hope they can get felony convictions on these people so they are disqualified from working with kids again. Otherwise they are just going to move to a different school just like cops move to another department or priests are moved to another parish.