Supreme Court To Review Case Of High School
Football Coach Fired For Postgame Prayers
Daily Wire,
by
Dillon Burroughs
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/18/2022 12:23:20 AM
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear oral arguments in the case of a former Washington high school football coach who was fired over his tradition of postgame prayers.“No teacher or coach should lose their job for simply expressing their faith while in public,” Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of First Liberty, who is representing the case, said in a statement.(Tweet) “By taking this important case, the Supreme Court can protect the right of every American to engage in private religious expression, including praying in public, without fear of punishment,” he added.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 1/18/2022 4:14:30 AM (No. 1042244)
Hard to believe that our country, which was founded on Christian values, has come to this.
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“ As Kennedy kneeled and prayed after each game, members of the team began to join him until a majority of the team was also praying. Members of the opposing team were also invited to join. Kennedy eventually began giving mid-field motivational speeches after the games that included religious messaging.”
Ask yourself if you would OK with this if the coach was a fundamentalist Shia Muslim from Iran.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/18/2022 6:08:36 AM (No. 1042297)
Dude, what happened to my country?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 1/18/2022 8:41:18 AM (No. 1042416)
#2... Of course we wouldn't... what a silly question. We were founded on Christian/Judeo values, not on a death cult known as Islam.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/18/2022 9:35:48 AM (No. 1042502)
#2--Islam is not a religion. It is a cult, a cult of conquest that was created to inspire and motivate the ignorant masses to attack and overwhelm the world in the name of their "god," who was created more than 600 years after Christ, and thousands of years after Abraham.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TLCary 1/18/2022 10:48:36 AM (No. 1042620)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Seems obvious that they have prohibited his free exercise of religion. But I'm guessing a wise Latina Catholic Leftist will find some tortured reason to see otherwise. The LEFT SCREAMS that the Supreme Court must mirror the diversity of the US People. Not one of them is Protestant (like the majority of The American People).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 1/18/2022 11:20:16 AM (No. 1042663)
Another school board needs to walk the plank.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/18/2022 11:23:14 AM (No. 1042669)
Now, what if Coach Joe Kennedy had been a Satanist...a Muslim...or anything other than a Christian. Part of today's problems stem from those "values" taught in school that aren't necessarily your values. Open that public school prayer door and you don't know what's coming through. Don't complain later...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 1/18/2022 11:56:10 AM (No. 1042723)
The Catholic schools in this country haven't created a problem that I am aware of of
Please,don't give me the diatribe about molesting priests. It happens at least as often if not more, in government schools.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/18/2022 1:03:35 PM (No. 1042841)
#9 - Catholic and other parochial schools are on their own to do prayer in their classrooms or Mass at the 50 yard line. It's a "government school" thing here. Coach is on the public payroll at a government school. My expectation is the court rules he's out of bounds, voluntary or not.
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#8 Of course you are correct. What's good for the goose is sadly good for the gander.
#4, #5 I agree it's a death cult. That's exactly the point. Under the US Constitution and rules long established by the Courts, governments are specifically forbidden to establish a preferred religion. Ergo, if they allow this preaching (and that what this is, not merely prayer), by a coach, they have to allow preaching by Islamists, Satanists, etc.
If you'd like to change the 1st amendment to exclude anything but your religion, by all means, have at it. Good luck with that.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Omen55 1/18/2022 4:23:14 PM (No. 1043057)
At least 5-4 for God.
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