....it was at a Catholic academy near Topeka -
The Kansas State High School Activities Association said referees reported that Michelle Campbell was preparing to officiate at St. Mary's Academy near Topeka on Feb. 2 when a school official insisted that Campbell could not call the game. The reason given, according to the referees: Campbell, as a woman, could not be put in a position of authority over boys because of the academy's beliefs.The headmaster has subsequently spun the event differently saying it was a matter of role models, not Biblical submission of women to men. That's not what the referees were told at gametime. Since it's a private school, the administration is probably within their rights to make such a demand, but the referees are also within their rights to refuse the conditions, and I'm pleased to note that Ms. Campbell's male colleagues walked out with her.
Of course we cannot have a woman "in a position of authority over boys". If we were to do that then all those boys would grow up to see women as more than the baby-factories god intended them to be...
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