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Federal Judge Rules Against Beloved Washington High School Football Coach

March 6, 2020 • Press Releases

Press Statement For Immediate Release: 3.06.20 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Federal Judge Rules Against Beloved Washington High School Football Coach Fired for Post-Game Prayers on Field Case returned to District Court after U.S. Supreme Court denied review, sought more details Tacoma, WA—Yesterday, federal district court judge Ronald Leighton […]

Coach Kennedy on Daystar’s Marcus & Joni

Daystar Television Network

May 17, 2017 • In the News

Kelly Shackelford, Mike Berry and First Liberty client, Coach Joe Kennedy discuss the latest on the Bremerton, Washington case.

Standing for the Right to Kneel

Decision Magazine

January 17, 2017 • In the News

What Joe Kennedy thought would be a routine jog in 2007 became the first leg on a journey leading him into coaching and eventually to becoming a central figure in the fight to preserve America’s religious liberties.

Coach Joe Kennedy Interview on Good Morning America

January 28, 2016 • Photos & Video

School district denies Coach’s request for religious accommodation

BREMERTON, WA, October 26, 2015

October 26, 2015 • Press Releases

Bremerton School District says Coach Joe Kennedy can’t pray alone, silently, at the fifty-yard line after football games; his attorneys announce that they will initiate legal proceedings.

High School Coach Says He Will Pray After the Game in Compliance With the Law

October 15, 2015 •

Tonight at Bremerton’s homecoming game, Coach Joe Kennedy, a Liberty Institute client, plans to personally pray at the 50-yard line following the game, as he has after every high school football game for seven years, despite the school district’s order that he stop. “The school district has no right to […]