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☆ After winning his Supreme Court case, a high school football coach has been rehired and is back to praying on the field again
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

High school football coach Joe Kennedy is back to coaching and praying on the field after a years-long fight. Kennedy was put on leave in 2015 over a fight with his school regarding praying on the football field. Joe Kennedy strode alone to midfield, knelt, and prayed for about 10 seconds after his Bremerton High School football team beat visiting Mount Douglas Secondary School 27-12 Friday night. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which works to keep government and religion separate, placed a billboard message near the school that read: "Wishing Bremerton High School a safe, secular & successful school year." In 2015, a dozen members of the Satanic Temple of Seattle went to a varsity football game at Bremerton High School, many dressed in hooded black robes or masks.

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☆ A high school football coach fired 8 years ago for praying on the field is coaching again after the Supreme Court ruled in his favor
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy's favor in June 2022 after he sued the school district. Kennedy is now coaching again at Bremerton High School for the first time in eight years. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Joe Kennedy's favor in June 2022. Kennedy is now back to coaching at Bremerton High School this season as an assistant, according to ABC 13. Bremerton High School did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Sunday.

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☆ Texas lawmaker says the Supreme Court cleared the way to force schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Texas' Senate passed a bill that would requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments. The Senator who authored the bill thinks the Supreme Court paved the way for his bill to pass. The Supreme Court last year sided with a football coach who lost his job after praying on the field. The Supreme Court ultimately sided with the Washington football coach, Joe Kennedy, in the case last year. He added that the Supreme Court cleared the way for this bill when they sided with Kennedy.

☆ Atheists avoid — for now — Supreme Court review of Florida shooting prayer vigil lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In the Florida case, the Ocala police chief organized and promoted a prayer vigil whose attendees included police chaplains. The judge, in his ruling, applied the so-called "Lemon test," named after a 1971 Supreme Court ruling. In that 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court effectively jettisoned the Lemon test in deciding that the coach had the right to pray with players and others on the field after games. The court's ruling said the Establishment Clause "must be interpreted by 'reference to historical practices and understandings.' A majority of the Supreme Court's justices on Monday declined to take the case on those grounds, without commenting on the decision.

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