It has struck down Bible readings and teacher-led prayer in classrooms, religious invocations at graduations and religious displays at other school sponsored activities. In a 2000 case,that opening football games with student-led prayer is also unconstitutional.
The school district explained at the time that the prayers violated"constitutionally-required directives that he refrain from engaging in overt, public religious displays on the football field while on duty." "The harm is to those who are the minority students, the minority faiths, the students who have no faith," he said."They are being pressured into doing something that they don't fundamentally agree with.That's what the First Amendment protects us from."
Attorney Jeremy Dys, representing Kennedy on behalf of the First Liberty Institute, said the coach should not be held accountable for the voluntary decisions of others to join him in an expression of faith. "If this were a case about a coach who in fact wanted to pray privately, in a solitary manner, we wouldn't be here," said Rachel Laser, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a nonprofit advocacy group backing the school district."You don't leave that behind when you go teach or coach at a public school, but what you do leave behind is your ability to engage students who are very impressionable, who are required to attend public school.
Can the Coptic Church also celebrate on the 50 yard line next to these alleged Christians?
As a practicing Christian I am the first to say this is totally unnecessary. And if you can’t ‘say gay’ you can’t openly practice religious beliefs.
Be careful what you wish for, because that would be ALL religions which includes Satanism ✌🏼
Why is it that everyone else can celebrate what they want, when they want, except for Christians who want to pray?
Just imagaine for a sec a Muslim teacher praying at school How do U think most parents especially the right wing Christians will react 🙄🙄🙄🙄
If he wants to pray by himself, more power to him. If he asks students to join in, then no. That is religious indoctrination. There is a separation of church and state, of which public education is a part, for good reason.
this is america's danger; Christian fascism denotes the intersection between fascism and Christianity and it also encompasses the fascistic, totalitarian, and imperialistic aspects of the Christian Church. It is sometimes referred to as 'Christofascism',
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Sweet. I can hold a Black Mass in the endzone then?
I'm sure everyone would be equally supportive if he were a Muslim singing praise to Allah with the team gathered around him.
The first sentence sums up the problem' a personal act that becomes a public spectacle... The Society of the Spectacle La société du spectacle by Guy Debord
I don’t understand how Trumpy or the so called republicans would get behind this coach, when in fact they were so against Kaepernick7 taking a knee for his own reasons SMH 🤦🏻♀️
OMG, OMG, HE'S TAKING A KNEE!! Kaepernick7