The Freedom From Religion Foundation says it was ‘inappropriate and unconstitutional’ for Auburn employees like head coach Hugh Freeze to have participated.
An anti-religion group attempting to throw cold water on an Alabama university after the school’s football coach was filmed assisting with the baptism of a student has a “twisted interpretation of the First Amendment,” a legal expert says.
“Freedom From Religion Foundation’s twisted interpretation of the First Amendment has the potential to crush both students’ and their coaches’ essential right to live out their faith,” Langhofer told Fox News Digital in a statement. The baptisms took place Tuesday night in a lake at Auburn’s Red Barn venue, which is located about a half mile from Auburn University’s Neville Arena, where a “Unite Auburn” worship event drew a massive crowd.
Photographs and video footage from the event showed hundreds of college students lining the banks of the lake as students waded into the water to be baptized one by one over a two-hour period.Auburn Tigers head football coach Hugh Freeze baptizes students at massive ‘Unite Auburn’ worship event “What was so great about these baptisms is that it wasn’t a planned religious event. It was just a whole bunch of college students moved by their desire to follow Jesus,” Auburn student Mateo Arenas told Fox.
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