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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is a smaller student athlete organization, but they just announced that they would fall in line with the NCAA and boycott North Carolina over the bathroom law.
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That being said, two schools – Oklahoma Wesleyan University and College of the Ozarks – have emerged as voices of sanity and principle in all of this.
They have refused to be part of the boycott and have withdrew their teams from the competition.
“It’s not the business of the NAIA to tell the citizens of North Carolina how to regulate their bathrooms, nor should athletes be political pawns,” College of the Ozarks President Jerry Davis declared in a statement. “This is another example of political correctness gone berserk and is a big mistake.”
WAIT. You mean a college sports organization could actually just participate in the sports and not force their liberal politics on others, using their athletes as weapons?
The NAIA described the decision as being motivated by a “commitment to providing a positive student-athlete experience with fairness and inclusion for all those participating,” but Davis pointed out that “the NAIA’s important ‘Champions of Character’ initiative is undermined when a small group of presidents don’t appear to adhere to the NAIA’s own statement of core values, which includes ‘keeping commitments,’” adding, “It appears the Council has lost touch with its own administrators and no doubt much of the public at large.”
I can’t agree with this strongly enough.
Ultimately, what the NAIA and the NCAA are doing is attempting to punish the student athletes, thereby prompting their parents to attack North Carolina and force compliance.
Pretty twisted.
The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Everett Piper, took it even further.
“Surely an organization that promotes champions of character should have enough moral clarity to recognize that female athletes should be given the dignity of having their own restrooms,” Piper told The Tulsa World when announcing his decision.
“How can we claim to be an organization that supports women if our leadership is so willing to deny female athletes the right to have their own bathrooms, showers, toilet, and lavatory?” he asked. “The NAIA’s disregard for such basic rights is sobering.”
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Two Colleges Emerge as Bastions of Sanity in NCAA Boycott of North Carolina https://t.co/G2y1Xg63It
— RedState (@RedState) October 3, 2016
Good to know that there is at least some sanity left in the world!
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