Disqualified, after taking third place in Georgia’s 5A cross-country finals, all because of a Bible verse on the inside of a headband. John Green, a high school runner from West Forsyth, wears a headband to hold back his shaggy mane while running.
He was asked to turn his headband outside in because of the verse that was on it, to which he complied. He has worn a headband at previous events and state finals, with no repercussion, but this time, in spite of having two officials approve his headband, the third official ruled it an “uniform violation”.
After crossing the finish line, Green should have celebrated his third place finish, but instead was faced with a disqualification because of his Bible verse adorned headband offended someone.
A statement was made by Green’s Assistant Coach Scott Griffith, “It is hard to understand how an unreadable, inside-out Bible verse is something harmful to our sport and worthy of a post-race disqualification of a student athlete.” There is really no other explanation that fits the reality.
There are no rules against headbands, two out of three officials approved the headband and Green complied with turning it outside in, thus the most obvious conclusion lends itself to disqualification due to religions persecution. Read more on the next page.
How can conservatives talk about anything dealing with the Bible, when all this and other conservative site post lies about our 1st family? Post HATE stories about Muslims did this & that! Black thugs this & that! White Extremist KILLED Americans, but they’re isolated incidents of mentally ill people
Nothing better to pick on.
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Gonna get worse for Christians if we don’t start fighting back REALLY HARD!
SHAME, SHAME on these High School Officials for Disqualifing this young man!
not right.
Not true.. he wasn’t disqualified for whereing a headband with a bible verse.. he was disqualified, because his headband was illegal.. rules state it can have a logo only and no other adornment.. he was also told this before the race and.chose to put it back on.. please, report the full story.. this page is call TRUTH and action
This page should change its name to half truths and NO action… Because that is a total true story.
How sad
Sad day for America when you write such rule, a Nike swoop is ok because of money.