(ChurchLeaders) One of the high school football players from Tennessee’s Putnam County School (PCS) system joined other members of his school community in sharing why they are determined to pray after football games despite a decision from PCS to ban school staff from leading students in prayer.
“I am surprised,” said Elijah Burgess, an offensive lineman for Upperman High School in Baxter, Tenn. In an appearance on Fox & Friends on Sept. 23, Burgess said that he would not have anticipated such a decision from a school district in Tennessee, which a fairly conservative area of the U.S. “I mean, growing up, that was one of the things I never thought would happen, that I would be told not to pray,” he said.