{"id":27861,"date":"2012-05-10T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/yikes-girl-cooties.html"},"modified":"2012-05-10T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:27:09","slug":"yikes-girl-cooties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/yikes-girl-cooties.html","title":{"rendered":"Yikes! Girl Cooties!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#39;In a statement to FoxNews.com, an Our Lady of Sorrows official said the school had no choice but to forfeit because it has a strict policy prohibiting participation in co-ed athletics and believes in &quot;forming and educating boys and girls&quot; separately.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cTeaching our boys to treat ladies with deference, we choose not to place them in an athletic competition where proper boundaries can only be respected with difficulty,\u201d the statement read. &quot;Our school aims to instill in our boys a profound respect for women and girls.&quot;.&#39;<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Your loss, OLoS. Metaphorically and literally. I&#39;m not sure how refusing to play baseball against a (eek!) girl is providing deference and respect, to be honest. The (eek!) girl certainly doesn&#39;t sound happy, respected, or deferred-to about it.<br \/>via <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109830558164732334015\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"109830558164732334015\">Steven Sudit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fa57.foxnews.com%2Fglobal.fncstatic.com%2Fstatic%2Fmanaged%2Fimg%2FU.S.%2F128%2F128%2Fsultzbach.JPG' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/05\/10\/phoenix-school-forfeits-arizona-title-game-rather-than-face-girl-opponent\/?cmpid=GoogleNewsEditorsPicks&#038;google_editors_picks=true'>Arizona high school forfeits championship game rather than face girl opponent<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA fundamentalist Catholic school in Arizona has forfeited a state championship baseball game rather than face a team that fields a female player, citing a \u201ctraditional approach to education.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/CRBY8hjxxuo' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;In a statement to FoxNews.com, an Our Lady of Sorrows official said the school had no choice but to forfeit because it has a strict policy prohibiting participation in co-ed athletics and believes in &quot;forming and educating boys and girls&quot; separately. \u201cTeaching our boys to treat ladies with deference, we choose not to place them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/yikes-girl-cooties.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yikes! 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