Post # 8 - Coach coaches Lifestyles

There’s a coach in Kentucky who coaches girl’s basketball team.  In that endeavor, he believes that it is his responsibility and his right to coach the girls in their life choices.  He has stated publicly many times that he teaches these girls that the sports life they are following will endeavor to teach them that they must be “homosexual” and “promiscuous” and that this is wrong.

He’s also teaching them that his religion, and only his religion, is the right way to God and that they must follow that faith and denounce the “homosexual lifestyle” to be free to pursue sports and the sporting lifestyle.  Otherwise, they will be separated from God and spend eternity in Hell.

So, the first thing I gotta say about this is this:  He’s a coach in a public high school that’s funded by state government funding.  He’s not allowed to proselytize his personal agenda, or amass disciples to his cause.  He’s allowed to coach basketball and make those girls into the best athletes they can be regardless of their personal choices.

The second thing I gotta say is: If so many people know about this pattern of behavior that it’s been reported on a national news service, why hasn’t he been counseled?

Any time that our society allows an individual to forward his/her own agenda in the name of religion while in a public/elected forum, we have entered that slippery slope where definitions of what is proper and correct are blurred and things such as the KKK and Nazism can flourish.  Both those organizations needed only a single scapegoat to be successful (blacks and Jews.) 

Some may think that I’m being a little paranoid, but if we turned the tables and said that any man who was married to a woman should be put to death, what would they think?  And if we allowed our teachers, coaches, preachers, principals, police officers, and other elected officials to behave the same way, where would our society be?

I’ve said this before, and I’ll continue saying it until my tongue turns blue and falls off.

ANY PERSON IN AN OFFICIAL PUBLIC OFFICE (FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE LOCAL DOG CATCHER) MUST BEHAVE IN THE ACCORDANCE OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND NOT THEIR PERSONAL BELEIFS.

I will shout this from the rooftops if needed.

Finally, I cannot believe the amount of arrogance this man has to assume that his personal belief system is correct for every single person on this planet.  When I was studying to be a minister, I was taught (thankfully and blessedly) that it was my responsibility to present the options and that it was up to the individuals to decide what they were going to do.  End of story. 

Thank you.