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The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a high-profile case involving a high school football coach who was reprimanded for postgame prayers on the football fields 50-yard line.
The dispute has drawn dozens of briefs from interest groups on both sides, with religious liberty advocates urging the 6-3 conservative majority court to advance their cause, while backers of the school have asked the justices to lay down a marker on church-state separation.
One unusual twist that makes the cases stakes difficult to gauge is that coach Joseph Kennedy and the Seattle-area school district have offered sharply contrasting accounts of what transpired. Depending on which facts the court finds most persuasive, the case could be dispatched quietly, or it could mark a watershed in First Amendment law.
A real question the court has to decide here is what version of the facts do they agree with. And to some extent, deciding that may very well decide the case, said David Gossett, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, who backed the school district in an amicus brief featuring accounts from former professional and college athletes and coaches.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-revisits-prayer-in-school-in-football-coach-case/ar-AAWy5Yt
bucolic_frolic
(43,250 posts)That's the wackiest "God is on our side" argument I ever heard. At least in war and politics, we can introduce morality as a backup belief. But football? And these loonies agreed to look at it?
hatrack
(59,592 posts)msongs
(67,433 posts)players who don't go along will find their careers stifled by the bible pushers
Fullduplexxx
(7,867 posts)Goodheart
(5,334 posts)This has already been settled.
3catwoman3
(24,026 posts)...the same athletic conference as the school both our sons attended - Carthage College in Kenosha WI. After soccer games, the Wheaton team would gather in the center of the field in a prayer circle, and urge the opposing team's players to join them.
They would also do this at away games, which really used to piss me off. One your own campus, OK, fine. At away games, keep your religious rituals to yourself. I found this arrogant and presumptuous.
Poiuyt
(18,129 posts)They can do what they like
3catwoman3
(24,026 posts)As I said, I think it is presumptuous to impose ones own practices/rituals/customs when a guest on another campus.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)I expect it to stick its hyper religious snout into this trough and come up with a truly christofascist ruling.
RainCaster
(10,908 posts)on the football field. That would really chap their hides.