An Arkansas pastor is speaking out after he was accused of a “constitutional violation” for giving a Bible-based devotion at a high school football camp.
Konnor McKay, pastor of Waldron Pentecostal Church of God in Waldron, Arkansas, was invited to his former high school last month to speak at a football camp about teamwork and leadership, as well as encourage the young men.
However, according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an anti-Christian nonprofit that bill itself as an organization that educates people on “nontheism,” McKay and the school district, Danville Public Schools, willfully violated the Constitution.
In a letter, the group accused district officials of subjecting football players to “Christian proselytization” and demanded officials “not allow its football program to be used as a captive audience for evangelists.”
FFRF amounted McKay’s speech as a violation of the Constitution’s Establishment Clause — which bars Congress from passing a law “respecting an establishment of religion” — and demanded the district inform FFRF what steps it will take to “ensure that its athletic programs will not be used to promote religion in the future.”
“Parents send their students to football camps to become better players, not to be brainwashed. Public school students should not have to pray to play,” FFRF co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor stated in a press release.
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