Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey bluntly pushed back Friday on activist atheists upset about an evangelical worship event at state-owned Auburn University and the three coaches who supported the event.
basketball coach Bruce Pearl and baseball coach Butch Thompson “actively promoted” the event to students.
Mr. Pearl is Jewish, but foundation attorney Chris Line said via email Friday that “he still entangles his religion with his program” because last year he led a group of athletes on a tour of Israel where “players are going to see their Judeo-Christian roots.” Mr. Line initially said in an email to The Washington Times that Mr. Pearl “baptised” students on that trip, but later conceded “there is no evidence as far as I am aware he personally baptized” anyone.
Mr. Line this month sent a similar warning letter to Snead State Community College President Joe Whitmore, after a report that he has offered prayers before meals and at staff events. Snead, in Boaz, Alabama, was founded as a religious school, Ms.“The facts described in your recent letters do not violate anyone’s religious liberty,” the governor wrote.
“Requiring college officials to entirely remove faith from their lives could well violate those officials’ own religious freedom. After all, the First Amendment protects the free exercise’ of religion just as much as it prohibits government establishment of religion.”
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