BREAKING: FPA Briefs SCOTUS on Behalf of Praying Coach

 

Coach Kennedy SCOTUS

 

A high school football coach who was fired for praying on the field
after games is about to have his case heard in the U.S. Supreme Court.
And you - through your support and engagement with Family Policy
Alliance - are in the thick of the action as it heads to the
Court.

When Joe Kennedy coached the high school football team in Bremerton,
Washington, he regularly prayed alone briefly at the 50-yard line
following games. At one point, a couple of his students asked if they
could join. He responded that it's a free country, and so they
did.

Eventually, nearly half of the team had joined him, along with
students and even coaches from the other teams. Suddenly, he was told
by the school that he could no longer pray publicly. At first, he
followed their order, but then he felt that his freedoms of speech and
religion were being violated, and so he continued his prayers.

The school district fired him, saying that they needed to avoid
violating the Establishment Clause. At issue in the case is whether
Coach Kennedy has speech and religious rights to pray briefly in
public.

With your support, Family Policy Alliance is engaging directly on this
case. Today, we filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief with the
U.S. Supreme Court. Justices regularly read such briefs and sometimes
even cite them in their opinions.

Among other things, this powerful brief points out that public schools
allow all sorts of highly controversial beliefs, while singling out
religious views for particular discrimination:

"[T]raditional religious beliefs are uniquely targeted for
censure, while a host of comparable, religious-like beliefs receive a
free pass or even endorsement. Rather than creating 'neutrality
between religion and religion, and between religion and
nonreligion,' a reasonable observer would comprehend that
traditional religion alone is being treated as poisonous and
inappropriate in society."

Family Policy Alliance filed the brief together with 29 state family
policy councils from around the country, including
Pennsylvania's Independence Law Center, which authored the
brief. Family Policy Alliance is pleased to host this alliance of
independent state-based family policy councils around the country.
Together, this alliance advocates on behalf of more than a million
citizens across the nation.

Please pray for this critical case. And thank you for making this
effort possible with your support.

John Paulton
Director of State Alliances

 



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