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My problem with girl football players<\/a> is that, when the dust settles, you almost inevitably\u00a0find out that the boys either instinctively pulled their punches, or in some cases, were instructed to do so. \u00a0On cases where girls on the gridiron were hit with the full brunt of a linebacker\u2019s crushing tackle, there have been charges of sexism or meanness or that the player was hitting super hard to make a point. Why girls insist on wanthing things like this, I don\u2019t know. Why they drool so at the thought of fighting in wars is beyond me. <\/p>\n

But why couldn\u2019t the\u00a0Church\u00a0have stayed on traditional footing that suggests it\u2019s still too early to make a call about girls in football. \u00a0At least, girls in football without the game changing (does the CYO have softball leagues, and can boys play on those?). \u00a0And this doesn\u2019t consider various traditional teachings on how a boy should treat a girl (how can a boy be taught to never, ever hit a girl and then have to hit a girl?). Once\u00a0again<\/a>, stand the ground Church. \u00a0You can\u2019t say the End Result is true, but everything else is up for grabs. \u00a0Sometimes, everything else is also true,\u00a0precisely\u00a0because the End Result is true. \u00a0Are women absolutely totally and without exception equal to men in every\u00a0conceivable\u00a0way in such a manner that there can be no\u00a0meaningful discussion of differences? \u00a0If so, then not allowing them to be priests\u00a0seems to break down somewhere along the line to nothing other than theological arbitrariness. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean that women have to\u00a0stray\u00a0barefoot and\u00a0pregnant\u00a0in the kitchen to make the priesthood as historically understood make sense. \u00a0I am saying it\u2019s OK to say women and men should be equal where equality exists, but there might be times when equality breaks down, and men still won\u2019t have babies, and women still won\u2019t be able to do certain things men can do, at least without modifying the way men have traditionally done it. As I said, trying to compromise in everything but the final thing just doesn\u2019t seem to last long, at least if the lessons from mainline Protestant denominations have anything to say.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"