The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a high school football coach who claimed the right to pray on the 50-yard line after each game, joined by those players who wanted to participate. | via NPR
The parties included this image, of Coach Kennedy praying with a crowd after the homecoming game, in their joint appendix submitted to the Supreme CourtThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a high school football coach who claimed, joined by those players who wanted to participate. The 6-to-3 decision was the latest example of the court's conservative supermajority requiring more accommodation for religion in public schools and less separation between church and state.
"Respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse Republic. Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a personal religious observance, based on a mistaken view that it has a duty to suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination. Mr.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock usually files briefs siding with religion advocates. But not in this case. He called Monday's ruling,"fundamentally dishonest" and pointed to the third sentence of the Gorsuch opinion, which characterizes coach Kennedy's conduct as"quiet isolated prayers," stating,"They weren't quiet and they weren't isolated.
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