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Old Sat Feb 27, 2010, 03:22pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by rockyroad View Post
The WIAA has been VERY clear over the last 20 or so years that game times are set in advance and will not be changed to cater to one group or another. If they make the change for this group, they have to be willing to postpone Friday night semi-final games until Saturday night and then move the Championship games to Sunday - thus affecting everyone else involved in a negative way. That makes no sense.

I admire these kids, their coaches, their Rabbi's and their parents for sticking to their beliefs. But they knew what the situation was going in - this did not take them by surprise. They made their choices. They were not penalized or punished - they chose.
The big question is whether they regularly schedule games on Sunday or not? If not, why? Of course they, and most states, don't in order to not infringe on the beliefs of the majority of religious schools.

Oregon has had the same issue with an Adventist school. It went all the way to the State Supreme Court and they, perhaps based on an Oregon-specific law, ruled that the OSAA must make reasonable accomodations. (All of the intermediate courts had ruled the same way but the OSAA pursued appeals all the way to the top.) Reasonable was not spelled out but moving the time to before sundown on Friday or after sundown on Saturday was ruled to be reasonable. Neither type of change really affects anyone negatively so the only argument against it is really just an anti-religion argument (or anti-Adventist, or other similar less common groups).
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