The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether the local school district properly suspended football coach Joseph Kennedy from his job at Bremerton High School, after he refused to stop praying on the field at the end of games.
in a religious liberty dispute over the limits of exercising one's faith in public.
The school district argues that the act was anything but a private moment of reflection, and that it continually involved public prayers with students, some of whom felt pressured to join in the display. "The prayer after the football game -- that was just myself, I would just take a knee at the 50-yard line after football game," Kennedy told Fox News' chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream."After a few months, the kids would say: Coach, what are you doing out there? And I just said I was thanking God for what you did. They asked if they could join. And I said: it's America, a free country, you do what you want to do. And that's how that kind of started.
Another parent, Paul Peterson, whose son played on the team in 2010, said the sight of the coach on the field surrounded by kneeling teammates became a"spectacle," that put pressure on other students to follow. "Coach Kennedy simply wants to pray by himself at the 50-yard line. That's the commitment he made before God," Dys told Fox News."They [school leaders] refused to honor that. And now here we are seven years later, arguing about whether or not someone could be fired from their job just because the public can see him engage in a private act of worship."School officials say they repeatedly tried to accommodate Kennedy.
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