The praying high school football coach from Washington state has suffered another legal defeat. A federal appeals court agreed with a lower court’s ruling not to allow Coach Joe Kennedy to return to his job at a Washington high school. The Bremerton School District dismissed Coach Kennedy after he refused to stop praying at mid-field after football games.
Kennedy is suing the district on religious freedom grounds. He also sought a ruling against the district because he wanted to return to work until the suit is decided. Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most liberal courts in the country, ruled against the coach. READ MORE
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I Walked past that field that this coach …coached football on …My prayer is that this coach and other coaches have the opportunity to pray with their teams in the future ..