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Ready, Set, Unitard?
Original Air Date: January 19, 2008
Show Category:
Religion
Show Description: I saw a case this week about a Muslim girl who has been running high school track for four years. The only catch is that she is a devout Muslim and has a custom made unitard to cover her body completely. That's right, you heard that correct, a unitard. Well even though she has been racing for three years, apparently, only now someone has objected and she has been disqualified for all future races due to not adhering to high school track uniform code. Is this an infringement of freedom of religion or is this just fairness. Join the conversation as we look at religion in America.
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Allen's Legal Pad for Ready, Set, Unitard?
Jamie Dupree
Results
Implications for nominations
Anyone knocked out by this?
Role of faith in this?
SC debate
Huckabee on faith role of faith in elections
Tired of folks saying they should not talk about their faith
I want to know everything I can about a candidate
And faith is crucial here's why
faith not a component of life center affects everything I do
Candidate has no faith tells me a lot cannot expect them to value life can expect them to value rational thought without nuance or metaphor or aesthetic meaning
Candidate has ancillary faith tells me they are shallow on core principles
Candidate has deep faith want to see how that affects their lives and leadership may or may not agree then I can make a decision
Then I will
One element for me
Like president to share that glad he is open and honest do not want one antithetical to faith
But do want one who values freedom
Government will not replace the church cannot give hope, cannot solve all problems
Love for government to do some Christian things
But no such thing as a Christian government idealistic and utopian nor can we all agree on what that actually is
Values freedom therefore is crucial freedom to be Christian, to share faith, to embrace or reject faith
And protect us
Mitt and Mormons
Democrats embracing faith
Faith teaches me
1) Hope comes from God not government
2) No candidate is Jesus; nor does any candidate have a corner on the faith marketplace
3) Freedom is precious and rare and therefore to be valued
4) Weak and vulnerable matter includes the homeless, the mentally ill, and the unborn how you help them varies free market, etc
5) Happy for candidates to talk about their faith we are big people, grown ups, and can use that as part of our decision making just do not expect me to use that as my sole criterion
Latter part of hour
Ever had to make a hard choice because of your faith?
Muslim girl disqualified in track meet
Uniform violation
Details
Up in arms
Freedom of religion?
Yes, free to wear what you want wherever you choose
But not free to do that if uniform regulations forbid it
Nudist runner, Jewish runner Orthodox
Free to choose not to participate
College athlete would not play on Saturdays
Koufax preferred not to pitch on Saturdays
Ben Utecht Minnesota Playboy
Star of the football team this year at University of Minnesota
Offer came named to the pre-season All-America team celebrated annually by Playboy magazine an honor many would kill for, get the name out there, raise ranking for the draft, worked hard for this
Ben turned it down
I didnt want to portray the wrong idea of the kind of person I am. I know, football wise, its probably bad to turn down something like this, but football is not the most important thing in my life. (World, 7/22/00)
Free to choose to opt out of all these
Sometimes freedom of religion forces you to make choices
Cannot have allegiances to everything at the same time
British runner Eric Liddell, who refused to run on the Sabbath during the 1924 Olympics. That story was featured into the Oscar-winning movie "Chariots of Fire."
In 1965, Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher Sandy Koufax refused to pitch on the holiest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, during the World Series.
More recently, former BYU lineman Eli Herring passed up a large signing bonus and a likely NFL career because he didn't want to play on Sundays
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