The Washington Nationals baseball organization has suspended team minister Jon Moeller for counseling outfielder Ryan Church that his Jewish ex-girlfriend and the rest of us Jews are going to hell.
JTA reports that Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld met Tuesday with Nationals President Tony Tavares and stated:
What happened in the locker room was hatred. Everyones allowed to believe what they want, but the moment that hatred comes into the locker room, its a source of divisiveness.
This story reeks of University of Georgia cheerleading coach Marilou Braswell, who denied a Jewish sqaud member varsity status because she refused to participate in Braswell’s creepy Christian prayer circles. UGA fired her immediately and Braswell made a huge ass of herself by filing a lawsuit, which exposed the large sums of money she still owed the school for camps she’d hosted. These days she’s probably coaching a neo-Nazi Pop Warner team somewhere in Podunk, GA.
It’s admirable that these organizations act swiftly to remove these people from their jobs and frankly, if hell is wherever they’re not, we’ll all be just fine.
Hat tip to Stairmaster Scott Steinberg at J.
Hatred is always unacceptable, as is religious discrimination. When you use the term, “creepy christian prayer circle,” how are you any different? Just a thought.
Uh, did you read the post? Braswell seemed to think it peachy to make prayer meetings a mandatory team event and implied that non-Christian members who did not attend said meetings were “less committed” to the sqaud.
Creepy. Scary. Icky.
If a Jewish cheerleading coach excluded people from team gatherings based on religion, that would be icky, too. Except it’s never happened.
I think all circles are creepy. Oranges and car tires terrify me.
Live and let live… that’s my motto.