A high school football coach who lost his job after defying orders to stop praying at the 50-yard line today sued a school district in Washington state, alleging it violated his constitutional rights to religion and free speech.
Several institutions including American Hindu Coalition, Manhattan Institute, Advancing American Freedom, and Capability Consulting, a business group dedicated to disability education, have filed “friend-of-the-court” briefs in Warner v. Hillsborough County School Board, urging the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse a lower court decision that prohibits parents from representing their children pro se unless they are an attorney.
When our Nation’s Founding Fathers wrote the Establishment Clause into the Bill of Rights, they envisioned it as a protective device – a means of safeguarding citizens from a federally-mandated religion. In just over two hundred years, it has instead become a weapon often wielded by government bureaucrats to stamp out any vestige of religion from our public life. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito even warned that religious liberty is “fast becoming a disfavored right.”
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