Selasa, 17 Januari 2012
-->LESSON NUMBER 10: You have to teach your kids how to stand up to bullies.
Because I am the father in a normal modern Australian family, there are, of course, very strict rules about "doing what you're told".
I'm not talking about the kids. I'm not even talking about the dog.
I'm talking about me. Doing what my darling wife tells me. About everything. Every day.
Except for one area where I get to be the boss – especially with the kids. Sport.
But we had a shocking and terrible experience recently with our nine-year-old and his cricket team.
The coach (another father of a boy in the team and I'd always suspected a bit of a Bible-basher) gave my son (who bowls left-handed) a really stern lecture in front of the whole team. It went like this:
"God loves you, but you playing left-handed is just plain wrong. You have to change. Left-handed batsmen and bowlers are the reason cricket in Australia has gone so far downhill in the last few years. Play right-handed or you're off the team.”
My son burst into tears. I was absolutely stunned. We got into the car and drove home in silence. He hasn't wanted to go back to play since.
What would you do or say if you were confronted with the same sort of nonsense? Would you swear at the old fool? Or start a fight?
Whatever you think, you would surely agree that the guy must have a screw loose.
And certainly you'd agree that his bizarre ideas about being left-handed are waaaaay out of wack with what about 99.99% of the Australian population thinks.
Well I'm happy to report that this did not in fact happen.
But I'm unhappy to report that the tennis champion, Margaret Court (left, in her tennis hey day), now a Pentecostal minister has been going around to lesbian tennis players saying the same thing to them about their sexual orientation.
She even had the gall to say it to Martina Navratilova.
"Politically correct education has masterfully escorted homosexuality out from behind closed doors, into the community openly and now is aggressively demanding marriage rights that are not theirs to take," Court has said.
In response there are plans for a protest at the Australian Open (where an arena bears Court's name).
Source: http://id.she.yahoo.com/new/http://thehoopla.com.au/giving-margaret-court-serve//
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