3/20/2023 0 Comments Scotus decisions todayMostly on precedent of cases from the 1970s and simple recognition that what he was doing was public as an employee of the school. Kennedy lost his case in district and appeals courts. So used as a precedent is inherently flawed. The case involved much more than Kennedy simply taking a knee and praying. Bremerton decision is its disregard to all the facts. The overarching problem with the Kennedy vs. Prayers by teams at high school football games in Connecticut is far more prevalent than you probably suspect. Proponents celebrated free speech, and to use the words of Gorsuch in his majority decision, “mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views.” Opponents of the SCOTUS decision fear more coercive prayer in public schools and the further blurring of the line between church and state. The district argued it was trying to stop the appearance of advocating any religious point of view. Joe Kennedy, an assistant coach and head JV coach, asserted the Bremerton School District violated his religious freedom in 2015. In the latest proof the pendulum has swung toward conservative Christian nationalism, the Court ruled, 6-3, that a former Washington state coach had a Constitutional right to pray on the field immediately after games. Say what you want about former president Trump’s distant relationship with the truth, but he made good on his campaign promise to stack the Supreme Court. What about a Buddhist? Jew? Hindu? Satanist?
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