I Know Who Won’t be Voting for Hillary This Year…

Published February 13th, 2008

That would be staff at St. Mary’s Academy near Topeka, KS. Why, you ask? Well because they’re a “Catholic” school run by the Society of St. Pius X. SSPX is a group that “professes filial devotion” to The Pope, but unfortunately for them, Pope John Paul II excommunicated them in 1988. That’s right - they’re heretics. Though they consider real Catholics the heretics, so it just depends on what side of the fence you’re on. It’s a long and complicated theological argument, and ultimately they’re all going to Hell if you listen to the Baptists. Isn’t religion fun?

So how do I know the folks at St. Mary’s won’t be voting for Hillary Clinton? Well as it turns out, they apparently believe that women should hold no position of authority over men. Or boys even. Women, in their eyes, are completely inferior to anyone with external genitals. (Guess that means I can tell women what to do. Guess someone should inform the women…) This viewpoint was quite evident Feb. 2 in Topeka at a boy’s high school basketball game. St. Mary’s actually refused to play the game - because one of the referees was a woman. This is no joke.  Sounds like something from The Onion, but idiots are always dumber in real life than in fiction.

At least the woman’s fellow referees were 100% on her side and completely refused to referee the game for St. Mary’s.

[Michelle] Campbell then walked off the court along with Darin Putthoff, the referee who was to work the game with her.

“I said, ‘If Michelle has to leave, then I’m leaving with her,”‘ Putthoff said Wednesday. “I was disappointed that it happened to Michelle. I’ve never heard of anything like that.”

Right on, partner. So St. Mary’s, apparently still thinking that someone out there would overlook their nutjobbery,  approached another referee. His response is fantastic:

Fred Shockey, who was getting ready to leave the gym after officiating two junior high games, said he was told there had been an emergency and was asked to stay and officiate two more games.

“When I found out what the emergency was, I said there was no way I was going to work those games,” said Shockey, who spent 12 years in the Army and became a ref about three years ago. “I have been led by some of the finest women this nation has to offer, and there was no way I was going to go along with that.”

Awesome. The sports league is thinking of revoking St. Mary’s approval to play against league members, and I sure hope they do. The high school athletic association involved sent a letter to St. Mary’s principal, Vicente A. Griego, way back on Feb. 2 and he reportedly has still not responded.

I sure hope a woman didn’t sign the letter.

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