by Jorge Gomez • 4 minutes
If you like Perry Mason and lawyer movies, I recommend watching The Burial. It features Jamie Foxx as an attorney fighting for the owner of a small funeral home. They sue a big corporation that promised to buy the business, but doesn’t honor its end of the deal and keeps delaying payment.
It’s what we love to see in good films and shows. David taking on Goliath. The little guy going to court to take on a bully. (No spoilers here. Don’t worry).
I always find it inspiring to watch a lawyer deliver a passionate closing argument. But let’s admit it, most of us don’t want to file lawsuits or get dragged into a court battle.
Legal fights can take a toll—calls with lawyers, long depositions, court hearings and waiting on judges to hand down a decision. It’s a lot to deal with.
Now, imagine fighting a case for 10 years—waiting with anticipation that you’ll see justice delivered.
You stay the course, trust your lawyer and keep fighting. Why do it?
Because you know it’s what you have to do. You know when an injustice happens or if your freedom is attacked, you can’t just let it slide. You have to fight back. It’s the right thing to do.
And when it’s your religious liberty—your most sacred freedom—at stake, you know deep down you can’t quit.
10 Years In—And This Christian School Isn’t Backing Down
The cost of going to court is high. It can be a long struggle. Behind every First Liberty case that reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, there is a client who stood firm through years of litigation.
Because to be in a lawsuit for 10 years—that takes perseverance. Resilience. Courage.
Courage defines our client, Cambridge Christian School. After a decade of litigation, the case is now pending at the Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court takes the case, it would be an opportunity to bring closure and have their rights restored. To correct the wrongs done when the state banned Cambridge Christian from praying over the loudspeaker at a football game against another Christian school.
With their case also comes an opportunity to set a major precedent. Winning at the Supreme Court could take some really bad precedents off the books. The result could protect the rights of students and religious schools across the country—for decades to come.
And it all goes back to the courage of one private school in Tampa, Florida.
One school that took on the big government bully. One school that said, “This is wrong. It’s unconstitutional. In America, religious freedom means something. This is a freedom worth fighting for.” One school that didn’t back down or give up.
Now, millions of Americans could see their lives changed. Their freedoms restored. Their legal rights strengthened.
What happened at that football game was so long ago. The students who were there for that state championship game in 2015 have since graduated. They’re probably well into their careers at this point.
Most people ask why the school is still fighting. Most would have given up and called it quits.
Not Cambridge.
Because it’s about much more than a football game. What the state did to those high school students that day went against everything our country stands for.
Prayer bans in America? Censoring two religious schools from praying together?
Who’s next? Where does that censorship stop? What messages or speech will the government target next?
That’s why Cambridge Christian stayed the course. Because they’re fighting for something greater. Something profoundly American: the right to pray. The right to live out your faith, freely and without censorship.
It took Cambridge 10 years to get to the highest court in the country. And now, their case could change the future and direction of our country. A victory would secure the blessings of liberty for generations—for our kids and grandkids.
And it’s all because one school had the courage to keep fighting.
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