The establishment clause prohibits government from helping or hindering religion. In this case the government (school) wanted to stop the coach from public prayer. The court ruled he was exercising his free religion/speech. Government did nothing to promote religious activities.
The Supreme Court punts on religious liberty
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The establishment clause prohibits government from helping or hindering religion. In this case the government (school) wanted to stop the coach from public prayer. The court ruled he was exercising his free religion/speech. Government did nothing to promote religious activities.
BidenPresident
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You're saying that the coach could stand there and mentally pray to himself. Or stage a group on the football field in overt form of Christian prayer. And the two are equivalent?!
The only fascist here is you.
Which students? As if their feelings would trample his inalienable religious freedom and exercise thereof.
BidenPresident
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The rubber and glue argument. Well played.
He was praying to himself as his inalienable right and Students chose to join him as is their inalienable right so go goosestep off a fucking cliff.
You have no right to tell him where and where he can not pray.
BidenPresident
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor brought home the factual absurdity of Gorsuch’s claim by taking the unusual step of including photos in her dissent. They showed a large group of players surrounding the coach as he prayed. Yes, they just might have felt a bit of pressure to join him.
“Today’s decision is particularly misguided,” Sotomayor wrote, “because it elevates the religious rights of a school official, who voluntarily accepted public employment and the limits that public employment entails, over those of his students, who are required to attend school and who this Court has long recognized are particularly vulnerable and deserving of protection.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/03/scotus-praying-football-coach-wrong/
The only one advocating for the elimination of civil liberties here is you you goosestepping little faggot.
BidenPresident
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He was not.
BidenPresident
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bye troll
And noone will give a shit it is only militant atheists who opposes free exercise of religion.
evince
Truthmatters
Wear the colander on your head and beg to be touched by his noodley appendage so you me be forgiven
Arrrge
That's not a real religion.
floridafan
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What exactly do you know about religion. Its only a means to an end for u, sweetie.
The kids were pressured to participate; this was not just an individual praying on his own. The praying was done publicly, giving the impression that the school (the government) was endorsing a particular religion. Since it is now apparently okay to have religious actions on campus, that means the Muslims, the Wiccans, the Jews, the snake-handlers -- *everyone* who wants to use the school property for religious expression is free to do so.
evince
Truthmatters
You are not the decider
The great big balls of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the decider
evince
Truthmatters
The founders had some ideas about such thing remember
ExpressLane
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Should they prevent prayer rooms for muslims?
Does it matter that it was a Christian prayer? It is legally equivalent if the others voluntarily joined the prayer. The point is that in this case the government was not promoting but opposing his activity so there was no establishment violation. The government made an effort to stop his prayer so any perceptions of coercion would be stopped.
That seemed like an issue between the coach and school district. He left because he did not accept their decision. Which governmental entity violated the establishment clause?