Alabama state champion coach and AD fired for being a member of the wrong church

[Omaha Steve]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/alabama-state-champion-coach-ad-fired-being-member-102348634.html

By Cameron Smith | Prep Rally – Fri, Aug 2, 2013 6:23 AM EDT

One of the most successful coaches in the state of Alabama is suddenly out of a job after he was dismissed for what initially seems to be a remarkably trivial reason: He attends the wrong church.



East Memorial Christian Academy, here playing in blue, is without its coach weeks before kickoff — BeRecruited


As reported by the Montgomery Advertiser, Prattville (Ala.) East Memorial Christian Academy super coach Scott Phillips, who led the school’s football program to its first state playoff birth in years and coached the boys basketball team to the first state title in any sport, was dismissed because he refused to force his family to attend East Memorial Baptist Church.

While Phillips had never been forced to attend the school’s affiliated church when he was only a coach, that changed when he became the school’s athletic director. As confirmed by the Advertiser, East Memorial Christian Academy’s athletic director was expected to attend the East Memorial Baptist Church, even though there was allegedly not an official clause in the contract requiring such attendance.



Now former East Memorial Christian Academy coach Scott Phillips — USA Today/Montgomery Advertiser


Phillips tried to make that work, getting his family to start each Sunday at a 9 a.m. service at East Memorial before attending an 11 a.m. service at his family’s church of choice, Church of the Highlands. Eventually that routine began to make Phillips feel dishonest, leading to a conversation with East Memorial officials where the coach and AD told them he didn’t feel comfortable attending Sunday services at East Memorial Baptist.

That was the last conversation he would have as the school’s AD.

FULL story at link.

[ceonupe]

1. This guy chose to work for a Chruch school right

And his employment was at will right ?

And they gave him chice right join or resign right?


Well no fucks will be given by me.

He chose to coach at a discriminatory institution and then gets mad that they judge him based on his religion choices.

Sorry for being crass but this guy get zero sympathy.

I'm sure he had/has other choices and hopefully he choses an orginization that is not openly discriminatory.

[Berlum]

2. When the TalibornAgain (R) rulz, you will be singled out next

Unless, of course, you have the CORRECT thot forms & beeleefs (R).

You do attend to the CORRECT church now, right? Or should I be pre-reporting you to the TaliBornAgain (R) for pre-sin and pre-non-conformance?

[ceonupe]

3. U miss my point

This guy was cool with the religious rules when he got the job.

He knowingly worked for a bigoted orginization and now he's mad that same orginization that would toss out a teacher for getting pregnant unmarried is now targeting him.


I don't support what happend to him but I also don't support employees of bigoted orginizations and that support those same bigots getting upset when the bigot turn on them.


Yes the school is known to have hard integration of their church and school and he wanted to work in that environment.

He should have worked for a non religious school if he did not want his church becoming an issue.

[Eleanors38]

4. See? Football isn't everything in Alabama.

[sharp_stick]

5. Gotta get them tithes any way you can

it's hard to form a theocracy based on a myth without money you know.

[LiberalFighter]

7. That was exactly why they wanted him to attend their church.

They expected to get 10% of the salary back in tithes.

[OutNow]

6. Don't they know that football is more important than church?

On any given Sunday in autumn compare the total attendance at an NFL game to the total attendance at all churches in that city. My bet is that NFL wins. Now add the number of folks watching the NFL game on TV or listening on the radio and compare that to all the people watching a church show or listening to a church show on radio that Sunday. Football wins by an even larger margin.

I know Texas is full of Bible-thumping Baptists, but having lived in the Dallas metroplex and Austin for 20 years I can guarantee that you don't ever want to come between a Texan and a Cowboys game.