Brave Christian Football Coach Suspended, Can Spend All Day Talking With God Now
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Brave Christian Football Coach Suspended, Can Spend All Day Talking With God Now
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The Great Jesus Sportsball War continues in Washington, where Bremerton High School administrators have placed assistant football coach Joe Kennedy on paid administrative leave for ignoring multiple requests that he stop leading players in prayer at the 50-yard line following games.
The foofaraw over the coach’s devotional display took a decidedly silly (and awesome) turn earlier in the week, when several students invited Seattle members of the Satanic Temple, our favorite group of Establishment Clause trolls, to protest the on-field prayers and offer their own invocation as well. Following his suspension, coach Kennedy attended Thursday night’s game as a civilian and prayed in the stands with other believers. The Satanists showed up, but stayed outside the venue to avoid disrupting the game. Neither Jesus nor Satan were observed in attendance at the football game, although some said they saw the Jester on the sidelines in a cast.
Bremerton School District explained in a letter to Kennedy Thursday that it was required by “lawful and constitutionally-required directives” to comply with the First Amendment’s restrictions on civic endorsements of religion. Yes, even if it’s a f’ball coach who started praying for both teams after the game all on his own and then students started voluntarily joining him in a public expression of faith:
“While attending games may be voluntary for most students, students required to be present by virtue of their participation in football or cheerleading will necessarily suffer a degree of coercion to participate in religious activity when their coaches lead or endorse it,” the district said in the letter.
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The Satanic Temple was invited to attend the game by a group of students that included obvious troublemaker and senior class president Abe Bartlett, whose name and dialogue appear to have been scripted by Aaron Sorkin, not that there’s anything wrong with that:
“The main reason I did it is to portray to the school district that I think we should either have a policy that we’re not going to have any religious affiliation or public religious practices, or they should say people are going to be allowed to practice their religion publicly whatever their beliefs,” the 17-year-old said Wednesday.
“They need to either go black or white,” Bartlett said, noting that the issue has become a topic of discussion in his government class. “I don’t think this controversial middle ground is what our school needs.”
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/595483/brave-christian-football-coach-suspended-can-spend-all-day-talking-with-god-now#p3o6HbRKteSKu1QU.99
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