{"id":1320081,"date":"2022-02-20T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T04:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1320081"},"modified":"2022-02-20T23:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T04:22:58","slug":"alabama-seventh-day-adventist-school-forced-to-forfeit-basketball-playoff-game-time-change-for-sabbath-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-seventh-day-adventist-school-forced-to-forfeit-basketball-playoff-game-time-change-for-sabbath-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Seventh-Day Adventist School Forced to Forfeit Basketball Playoff Game &#8212; Time Change for Sabbath Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falabama-seventh-day-adventist-school-forced-to-forfeit-basketball-playoff-game-time-change-for-sabbath-denied%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1320081&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Getty-Images_Jason-OBrien-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Huntsville, AL\u2019s Oakwood Adventist Academy High School varsity boys basketball team is being forced to forfeit a playoff game later today, eliminating a shot at the 1A state boys\u2019 basketball championship because the game was scheduled during the Sabbath for Seventh-Day Adventists.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the team advanced to the regional semifinal playoff round. However, when they learned they had been assigned a 4:30 p.m. local time game time, they requested the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) switch their time to the 7:30 p.m. local time game. The AHSAA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2022\/02\/18\/oakwood-adventist-basketball-team-plans-forfeit-ahsaa-wont-change-playoff-time-scheduled-during-sabbath\/?utm_source=ourcommunitynow&#038;utm_medium=web\">reportedly denied the request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not asking to change a venue, we\u2019re not asking to change a date,\u201d Oakwood Adventist Academy athletic director Calvin Morton said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2022\/02\/18\/oakwood-adventist-basketball-team-plans-forfeit-ahsaa-wont-change-playoff-time-scheduled-during-sabbath\/?utm_source=ourcommunitynow&#038;utm_medium=web\">to Huntsville, AL NBC affiliate WAFF<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re just simply asking to change a 4:30 time to a 7:30 time to accommodate our religion and our faith. We\u2019re just pleading on our behalf to make a reasonable accommodation for a simple time switch.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is bigger than basketball, these guys know that and staying disciplined in their faith, that\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has drawn the attention and ire of Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth, who tweeted he was \u201cvery disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very disappointed in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AHSAAUpdates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AHSAAUpdates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FhQPzlSaES\">https:\/\/t.co\/FhQPzlSaES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Ainsworth (@willainsworthAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willainsworthAL\/status\/1495058056538820610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_poor\">@jeff_poor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huntsville, AL\u2019s Oakwood Adventist Academy High School varsity boys basketball team is being forced to forfeit a playoff game later today, eliminating a shot at the 1A state boys\u2019 basketball &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}