An Arizona high school boys soccer team forfeited a match against an opponent because there were two girls on the team.
The Arizona Republic reported Friday the Mesa Faith Christian wouldn’t play Foothills Academy College Prep school because midfielders Alyssa and Collette Hocking were on the team. Mesa Faith Christian decided to forfeit the game against the Scottsdale high school instead of playing the game.
"I know it appears to fly in the face of what everyone is wanting to promote today, and that is equality," said Dick Buckingham, the administrative leader of Mesa Faith Christian. "It is based on a religious perspective that God created guys and girls differently. The difference physically, there is a strength advantage that men have over women. We want to teach our men that honor of ladies is just not in sports. We struggle how to teach that if we're allowing them to play against young ladies in a competitive game.
"We're the ones harmed because we're giving up a game. We think it's better to do that than give a mixed message."
i've played against girls before on my high school soccer team in arizona and i played just as hard against them as i did against the guys. they're athletes when they step on that field, not males/females.
losers.
