Washington football coach would return to field ‘in a heartbeat’ if he wins SCOTUS prayer case

A former highschool soccer coach in Washington state who was let go due to his midfield prayers instructed “The Story” on Monday that he would take his previous job again if the U.S. Supreme Courtroom dominated in his favor.

Joseph Kennedy, who coached for the Bremerton, Wash., college district from 2008 till 2015 claimed his termination violated his free speech and non secular freedom rights. College officers have countered that his praying was a constitutional problem in his position as a authorities worker.

Host Martha MacCallum requested Kennedy and his legal professional Jeremy Dys about one a part of oral arguments when Justice Neil Gorsuch famous the varsity’s coverage prohibits each encouragement and discouragement of prayer, whereas Obama-appointed Justice Elena Kagan acknowledged Kennedy’s prayer put an “undue stress” on non-Christian and atheist or agnostic gamers.

In response to Kagan’s concern, Kennedy stated he stopped praying with different college students as soon as the district requested him to not.

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Dys later added that no American ought to should face “selecting between their religion within the job that they love. That is precisely what Coach Kennedy needed to face nearly seven years in the past.”

“And I feel what you heard the justices saying in the present day is that possibly the case regulation that has developed over time has been making too many individuals make that very selection. And I feel that is not going to carry true for very for much longer. So whether or not it is Coach Kennedy or others that observe after him, individuals of religion have the proper to be lecturers at our public faculties.” 

Coach Joe Kennedy
(First Liberty Institute)

When requested if he would take his previous job again if the court docket dominated in his favor, Kennedy’s response was nearly immediate:

“In a heartbeat,” he stated. “I’d be there inside 24 hours.”

Dys predicted that the court docket’s June opinion will doubtless be that “no American has to shed their constitutional rights after they stroll by the schoolhouse gates,” citing a 1969 case’s ruling.