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Supreme Court to Debate Football Coach’s Prayers

January 20, 2022 by Staff

(Christianity Today) It is a fact that Joseph A. Kennedy, a former coach of the Bremerton Knights in the suburbs of Seattle, prayed on the 50-yard line after high school football games in the fall of 2015. But everything about those prayers is up for debate.

Were they public or private?

Was Kennedy praying just for himself, as an exercise of his faith, or as an official representative of the school district?

Did players join of their own accord, or were they pressured to participate?

Kennedy and the Washington state school district do not even agree on whether he was fired or failed to apply to extend his contract, or whether he ended his prayers with “amen.”

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