The hardest thing for me to bite my tongue about with the comments has to be the constant attacks on the community's use of religion as a sense of pride. People saying it's such a conservative way of thinking and non inclusive. That is a load of BS. Conservative America may show their religious beliefs more than some, but in Maria Stein, it's another way our community comes together. At every mass offered in the cluster on Sunday, there is almost standing room only or they have to bring out the folding chairs. Religion is who we are and has always been who we are, so what gives them the right to say we cant use religion in sports, when they have no idea our background. I have no right to tell them to believe in God, so they have no right to tell us to stop our traditions. As for inclusion, no one says they have to do the prayer. At Marion I played with a couple players who didn't go to church or necessarily believe in God. We also had a trainer who openly didn't believe in God, they still bowed their heads with us and held hands because it showed unity, which is what you need in a team. No one told them they had to, they just did it. As for women inclusion, the girl student body are gigantic supporters because all the guys play football, the women make up the student section. Marion also has storied womens sports programs. Anyone who stoops to bashing us using the political affiliation of our area, and inclusion, are just arrogant and are in fact showing how non inclusive they are to our beliefs, which is very hypocritical.