Freedom

New York City NY

Description

Joseph Kennedy was a high school football coach in Washington state from 2008 to 2015, where he began the practice of saying a prayer by himself after the game had concluded. Eventually, students began to join him. According to court documents, they evolved into motivational speeches with religious themes. An opposing coach complained to Kennedy's school principal. The school told Kennedy to stop or continue doing it somewhere else. Kennedy refused and was placed on leave. Kennedy argues his First Amendment and religious freedom rights were violated. The school argues that his prayers were a constitutional issue because he's a government employee, and also because his prayers had a coercive effect on the students, pressuring them to join him. Now, If the coach, instead of taking a knee for prayer, took a knee during the national anthem because of moral opposition to racism, how would your school district respond? Would that be government speech? What about teaching your 8 year old that he should choose his/her gender because your private parts do not indicate your gender. Would that be government speech. When an 8 year old child is allowed to mutilate his or her God given body, but we do not allow prayer before a game we may be going down the tubes folks. Actually take the word "may" out.