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Remember that football coach that lost his job for praying on the field?
Well, he just had his day in court and it did not go well for liberals.
The Supreme Court ruled in the coach’s favor this week, which will undoubtedly result in a slew of lawsuits being filed.
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At question was whether prayer after the games was unprotected “government speech” or a problem under the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
To both of those questions, the Supreme Court firmly stated, “NO.”
The decision, as we expected, came down along ideological lines (6-3).
Justice Neil Gorsuch penned the majority opinion, stating, “Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment.
“And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress.
“Religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech.
“The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”
The coach in question, Joe Kennedy, had been reciting a prayer at the 50-yard line after games by himself.
Eventually, some students started to join him.
As this evolved, an opposing team’s coach reported the activity, which eventually led to Kennedy being terminated.
