A 2022 Supreme Court ruling allowing a Washington state high school football coach to pray on the field at the end of games is the first step in a nationwide push to return affirmations of faith to the public square, according to the Christian legal group that won the case.
The Texas-based First Liberty Institute announced Monday a “Restoring Faith In America” campaign aimed at defending the right to openly pray, display the Ten Commandments, erect nativity scenes and otherwise express faith in arenas where religiosity disappeared in recent decades.
The group has set up a website for the “Restoring Faith” campaign and is asking Americans “to take a knee” on Sept. 1 when Mr. Kennedy does so when he returns as the coach for Bremerton High School, which fired the coach in 2015 for leading post-game prayers on the 50-yeard-line. The criteria were whether the aid had a clear secular purpose, would advance or inhibit religion, or create an “excessive” government entanglement with religion.
The First Liberty executive said that under the Lemon test, “any religion at school, it’s like there’s a fire at the school.” He said the “Lemon test” is replaced by a legal standard of “history and tradition,” which he said clearly supports Ten Commandments displays.
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