High school football coach scores big win at Supreme Court over post-game prayer

dukkha said:
he Supreme Court handed a big win to a former Washington high school football coach who lost his job over reciting a prayer on the 50-yard line after games.

At issue was whether a public school employee praying alone but in view of students was engaging in unprotected "government speech," and if it is not government speech, does it still pose a problem under the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the answer to both questions is no.

"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," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the Court's opinion. "Religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hi...scores-big-win-supreme-court-post-game-prayer
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So if Coach belonged to a snake juggling wing of a Christian Church can he bring snakes,to the pray circle after the game,for any kids to use if they freely want to?
 
dukkha said:
AProudLefty said:
Fun fact: pork is forbidden in the Bible.
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Old Testamentt -nothing to do with Christ
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Tell that to the RWNJs who cherry-pick the OT to bash people they don't like or conduct their behavior in ways that favor them.

I love it when some poorly educated Trumper munches on a Shrimp Po'boy or Pulled Pork BBQ sammich and points out how "The Bible condemns homosexuality as an abomination!" LOL
 
This is a perfect example of why we can't have nice things. This coach was not having a private moment, he was involving others and that's why there was a problem.
 
Free exercise is the liberty of persons to reach, hold, practice and change beliefs freely according to the dictates of conscience. The Free Exercise Clause prohibits government interference with religious belief and, within limits, religious practice.

Looks like the Free Exercise Clause prevailed.
 
LurchAddams said:
Careful.. look behind you.. JEWS!!!!


Boo!
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you're a strange little cunt.......perhaps you are unaware that guano loves to share the "fact" that jews support abortion because some rabbi in the 1100s wrote that an unborn child is nothing more than water......probably based on his "scientific discovery" of amniotic fluid.....our knowledge of biology has advanced since then.......guano's choice of scientific authority has not........I am not anti-semitic......I am anti-ignorance......
 
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