Wait till the Church of Satan holds a ritual at centerfield after a game. Or a Muslim coach lays out prayer rugs and has her players face Mecca and kneel with her. Can of worms: Open.
The court’s 6-to-3 conservative majority disagreed, insisting that Kennedy’s act of praying was protected by the First Amendment.
This decision was a mistake — not because public schools should be devoid of any religious expression but because students should not feel pressure from their teachers, administrators or coaches either to be or not to be religious, let alone subscribe to a particular faith.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...l-coach-wrong/
The irony of the decision is that it reduces religion to formal rituals. Being forced or intimidated to participate in a religion ritual, for the Court, is innocuous.
Wait till the Church of Satan holds a ritual at centerfield after a game. Or a Muslim coach lays out prayer rugs and has her players face Mecca and kneel with her. Can of worms: Open.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
AProudLefty (08-03-2022), evince (08-03-2022), Guno צְבִי (08-03-2022)
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s opinion for the majority pretended that a coach’s prayer right after a game was an entirely private action — “he offered his prayers quietly while his students were otherwise occupied,” Gorsuch wrote — when, in fact, it was a highly public display.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...l-coach-wrong/
Bloomberg Law -- Supreme Court Backs Coach Who Lost Job Over Midfield PrayersThe school district said Kennedy defied instructions to stop praying alongside his players and made media appearances that turned his prayers into spectacles. The district said that some students felt pressured into taking part and that it offered alternative, less public places to pray after games
Wait till the Satanists get their turn! lol
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
ZappasGuitar (08-03-2022)
He wasn't praying "privately" -- he was having a very public prayer huddle in the middle of the field with his team around him. On school property. Nothing would have been said if he'd done his praying out of the public eye. The school even offered him a place to do so, but he wanted to make a public spectacle of it.
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full." -- Jesus, Matt. 6:5
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
You need a reading comp course...BADLY.
The court ruled that individuals, such as the coach, are free to practice their religion in public, even on govt. properties,as long as they do not force anyone to join them.
HE DID NOT FORCE ANYONE TO JOIN HIM.
Dream up another NONEXISTENT PROBLEM.
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TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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PostmodernProphet (08-03-2022)
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
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Time for the great spaghetti monster to inspire lots of talking like a pirate on game day
ThatOwlWoman (08-03-2022)
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