Washington

High School football coach put on leave for leading game-time prayer

The Today Show
October 30, 2015 • In the News

Ken Klukowski, Senior Counsel for Liberty Institute, said, “He quietly expressed his personal faith in prayer, and they [the students] voluntarily decided to join him. There is no constitutional violation there.” Watch Video »

Lawless Judges Have Created an America Where Praying Gets a Man Suspended from His Job

National Review
October 29, 2015 • In the News

“Yesterday, Joe Kennedy, an assistant high-school–football coach in Bremerton, Wash., was suspended. His offense? Kneeling for a short on-field prayer after football games.“ Read full article »

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 Football Coach Could Be Fired for Praying with Players

Good Morning America
October 16, 2015 • In the News

“I don’t understand how this [praying] could be wrong,” said Joe Kennedy. Watch Video »

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 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Football coach says he will defy school’s prayer ban

Fox News
October 14, 2015 • In the News

“I spent 20 years in the military defending the Constitution and the freedoms that everybody has,” the coach told me. “All of a sudden, I realized that people who work for the public schools don’t have the same constitutional rights that everyone else has.” Read full article »

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