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

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dukkha

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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
 
Another win for the Theocratic Authoritarians! :thup:

How soon before Evangelicalism becomes the official religion of the United States of America?

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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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Any source by a legitimate news agency?
 
BidenPresident said:
Religious people are all assholes.
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Congrats! You just attacked 75% of all Americans. LOL


https://news.gallup.com/poll/358364/religious-americans.aspx
According to an average of all 2021 Gallup polling, about three in four Americans said they identify with a specific religious faith. By far the largest proportion, 69%, identify with a Christian religion, including 35% who are Protestant, 22% Catholic and 12% who identify with another Christian religion or simply as a "Christian."

Seven percent identify with a non-Christian religion, including 2% who are Jewish, 1% Muslim and 1% Buddhist, among others.

Twenty-one percent of Americans said they have no religious preference, and 3% did not answer the question.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/
 
BidenPresident said:
Any source by a legitimate news agency?
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Yes!

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday expanded the religious rights of government employees by ruling in favor of a Christian former public high school football coach in Washington state who sued after being suspended from his job for refusing to stop leading prayers with players on the field after games.

The justices in a 6-3 decision sided with Joseph Kennedy, who until 2015 was a part-time assistant football coach in the city of Bremerton and has since become a cause celebre for conservative Christian activists.
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newsmax.com/newsfront/supreme-court-prayer/2022/06/27/id/1076235/
 
"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.
 
Right wing mentality: I like to pray in public so everyone will see how good I am. I am against abortion so no one else should be able to.

Shit of the earth.
 
BidenPresident said:
Any source by a legitimate news agency?
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Fox News, like CNN and MSNBC, is a legitimate news agency. Highly slanted, but legitimate.

The fact remains the Republicans have successfully installed a RW activist Supreme Court. They'll revisit all the Theocratic Authoritarian issues from the past 30 years with gay marriage and birth control at the top of their list.
 
ExpressLane said:
His body his choice.
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The fact you only support rights for Euro-American males is well known.

I sincerely hope those around you know exactly how bitter and evil you are. Maybe they'll do something about it....if they haven't already.

Did your family abandon you in a retirement home? Have you considered that being an egotistical, domineering asshole pushes family away?
 
BidenPresident said:
Right wing mentality: I like to pray in public so everyone will see how good I am. I am against abortion so no one else should be able to.

Shit of the earth.
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White lib mentality, I virtue signal on Twitter from my white gated community and pretend I'm Mother Teresa without the vow of poverty. :palm:
 
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