NFL greats rally behind high school coach fired for postgame prayer amid Supreme Court battle
March 6, 2022 | Washington
NFL players, hall of famers and former coaches have joined former U.S. attorneys general in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that a Washington school district acted unlawfully when it fired a football coach for praying on the field after games.
Numerous “friend-of-the-court” briefs have been filed in the case Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, in which former Seattle-area football coach Joe Kennedy is seeking to reverse a lower court decision that allowed the school district to fire him because fans and students could see him take a knee in silent prayer at the 50-yard line after football games.
“We are grateful for the outpouring of support from every corner of America for Coach Kennedy to be able to pray, silently by himself on the 50-yard line after games,” Kelly Shackelford, president and chief counsel of the First Liberty, a Texas-based legal group representing Kennedy, said in a statement this week… (Excerpt from the Christian Post)
