U.S. Supreme Court agrees to take up the appeal of a Washington state high school football coach who lost his job after he refused to stop praying on the field immediately after games.
Joseph Kennedy's departure as assistant coach at Bremerton High School in 2015 made headlines nationwide. During a 2016 campaign event, then-candidate Donald Trump called Kennedy's treatment"very, very sad and outrageous."three years ago during a preliminary stage in his case, but four justices suggested at the time that lower court rulings against him were troubling.
His religious beliefs, his lawyers said,"require him to give thanks through prayer at the end of each game."No one complained about the prayers, but when school district officials became aware, they reminded him of a policy that prohibited school staff from indirectly encouraging students to engage in religious activity or discouraging them from doing so, because it would be perceived as endorsing or opposing religious activity.
A week later, after again praying on the field, he was placed on leave. The district did not re-hire him for the following season.
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