Cheering Hutterite women & Olympics

[shootingstar]

My mother was raised Mennonite in a little community in central Kansas. SHe is now in her mid 80's. She loved sports and her mother allowed her to play baseball with the boys of the community and participate in any other sports that she wanted to do.

Of course, the Hutterites are from the same basic tenents as the Mennonites, but much more restrictive. Basically, they are different sects of the same religion where some sects allowed more modern things and the others did not (I know this is a simplistic description, but in reality, not too off a description).

I've seen Hutterite women hiking the Grand Canyon; so they are not non-athletic people. It is hard work to work the farm without modern conveniences.

I'm glad they were able to participate in this celebration of sport!

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Hutterites more restrictive than the Old Order Mennonites? Old Order is pretty strict, since it's the black buggy and horse transportation method and even not turning the clocks for time clock changes twice per year. My conservative Mennonite friend, her husband came from an Old Order sect and he also worked for an Old Order biz where the employees had to go by a clock that wasn't in sych with the non Old Order Mennonite world. Abit confusing.

Yes, agree that hiking is pretty 'kosher' to them. It's a recreational sport or to spend a great vacation without man-made amusement of movies, tv, nightclubs, theatre which is shunned. My friend does this alot with her hubby when they go vacationing elsewhere. She still wears her floral dress to her knees, pantyhose with runners to walk around.

I did hear via same friend of a Mennonite woman living out in the rural area where she painted barn silos. She wore pants underneath her dress. It worked even though some of the elders disapproved.

Agree that different sects have different interpretations and practices of adapting or not adapting to certain technologies, human activities, etc.