The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether the local school district properly suspended football coach Joseph Kennedy from his job at Bremerton High School, after he refused to stop praying on the field at the end of games.
Joe Kennedy says his constitutional rights were violated when he was suspended from his coaching job for praying at the 50-yard line after high school football games in western Washington state.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will tackle a dispute between public school officials and a former high school football coach who wanted to kneel and pray on the field after games.
The arguments over Joseph Kennedy’s case started with a sequence of hypothetical situations posed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that involved where, when and how educators can legally pray while on the job.
Members of the court’s conservative majority indicated that the coach, Joseph A. Kennedy, had a constitutional right to kneel and pray at the 50-yard line after games.
While hearing arguments in the case, the justices were wrestling with how to balance the religious and free speech rights of teachers and coaches with the rights of students not to feel pressured into participating.
(The Center Square) – A football coach in Washington state who was fired for praying on the field after games took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, when
The majority of Supreme Court justices seemed to side with a former high school football coach who said his postgame prayers on the field amounted to private speech.
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