'Inappropriate Touching' Concerns Scuttle Pla's Football Hopes: Report
A panel appointed by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has recommended upholding a ban against girls in grades 5 through 8 from playing contact football, Forbes reports.
A panel of 20 people appointed by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has voted 16-3, with one abstention, to uphold a ban on females in grades 5-8 playing Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) contact football, Forbes reports. The panel's decision, reportedly reached on Feb. 14, would seemingly end the youth football aspirations of 11-year-old Caroline Pla of Buckingham Township. Caroline was in her second season of CYO contact football last fall when a complaint registered by an opposing team led the Archdiocese to enforce a pre-existing ban against female players. The Archdiocese permitted Pla to finish the season. Citing two panel members who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, Forbes reports that the panel, described by the Archdiocese…
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Jane
7:57 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Ahhhh, the old "everyone else is doing it" line. My parents didn't accept that excuse for bad behavior when I was a kid, and it should not fly now either. Especially with the church's hypocrisy on this issue. more ›