School Not Allowing a Woman Official

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Thu Feb 14, 2008, 05:00pm

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Originally Posted by Dan_ref

This is CLEARLY gender discrimination.

Agreed.

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Originally Posted by Dan_ref

How the courts decide is outside of my ability to predict.

And discrimination itself is not illegal. As others have said, it is only illegal in certain contexts. As dispicible as this situation is (and I'd have walked off the court with her as her partners did), it is probably within the rights of a religous organization (which they are) to do exactly what they did.

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