Religious exemptions for HS meets

bigmig19 wrote:

PeterG505 wrote:

Generally I'm very supportive of accommodating religious convictions, and I even think there's a lot of merit to their Sabbath practices. But yes, there are lots of problems with turning championship racing into a patchwork setup where different teams could be conceivably permitted to run on all different days. It might as well then be a "virtual" competition, like what some marathons became during COVID -- but I've never heard anyone suggest this is an adequate substitute.

Has this been done in previous years? Obviously the state meet is itself on a Saturday, so the school must make exceptions sometimes (unless they're hoping they can run that the day before too?).

Can someone please, someday, explain to me that we don't tolerate for one sec that someone can be gay or trans (im not in favor of bio males competing as females, but if you feel like another gender that's fine w/me) and that they must have a mental issue....but we make all sorts of exceptions for people who believe a ghost that lives in the sky told them that they can't run on saturdays?

Kvothe wrote:

bigmig19 wrote:

Can someone please, someday, explain to me that we don't tolerate for one sec that someone can be gay or trans (im not in favor of bio males competing as females, but if you feel like another gender that's fine w/me) and that they must have a mental issue....but we make all sorts of exceptions for people who believe a ghost that lives in the sky told them that they can't run on saturdays?

Religion and sexual preference aren't necessarily correlated.

Anyways, these people believe god wishes them to spend one day honoring him. Most will say man isn't infallible and they are doing their best to interpret what god wants (its not always literally spelled out) and in their interpretation (for some like these adventists), sport would cross the line and take away from worship/honouring god/etc. They don't believe god lives in the sky either, other than the sky as a metaphor for the unobservable. They would say god is everywhere and also in places humans can't perceive. Most Christian sects believe god can see everything that goes on in the universe, but exists outside of human perception (except when he actively choses to be perceived, which he can do but only does when needed for his long term (existence long) plan).

bigmig19 wrote:

Kvothe wrote:

Religion and sexual preference aren't necessarily correlated.

Anyways, these people believe god wishes them to spend one day honoring him. Most will say man isn't infallible and they are doing their best to interpret what god wants (its not always literally spelled out) and in their interpretation (for some like these adventists), sport would cross the line and take away from worship/honouring god/etc. They don't believe god lives in the sky either, other than the sky as a metaphor for the unobservable. They would say god is everywhere and also in places humans can't perceive. Most Christian sects believe god can see everything that goes on in the universe, but exists outside of human perception (except when he actively choses to be perceived, which he can do but only does when needed for his long term (existence long) plan).

But you would agree god and the 100s of interpretations are literally made up? Can I just say they are always after me lucky charms and get to run on a different day?