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The prayers drew big crowds and protests, and the Bremerton, Washington, school district placed him on leave and then refused to renew his contract.
High school football coaches know players pray before and after games already, but the coaches don't want them to feel pressure after the Supreme Court decision.
High school football assistant coach Joe Kennedy, who won back his job in 2022 after he said he was let go when he knelt in prayer after games, resigned from his position at Bremerton High School ...
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. 507 (2022), is a landmark decision [1] by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious observance, as doing so would violate the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.
The court ruled 6-3 for the coach with the court's conservative justices in the majority and its liberals in dissent. The justices said the coach's prayer was protected by the First Amendment.
Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy says he is excited to get back to work after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the school district violated his ...
Joe Kennedy, a high school football coach who was the subject of a high-profile Supreme Court case after he lost his job for praying following games, announced his resignation from his position ...
On Friday night, he is due to coach his first game since 2015, when he last pressed his knee to the turf at Bremerton High School's Memorial Stadium. After years of fighting, a praying football ...