Mooresville High football coach ordered to stop baptizing players.
Mooresville High School’s head football coach has been ordered to stop baptizing players and leading them in prayer.
A national organization that says it promotes the constitutional separation of church and state contacted the Mooresville Graded School District last fall to request that coach Hal Capps stop the practices.
“It is a violation of the Constitution for the Mooresville High School football coach to organize, lead, or participate in prayers or other religious proselytizing before, during, or after games and practices,” Patrick Elliott, staff attorney for the Wisconsin-based nonprofit Freedom from Religion Foundation, wrote last fall to school district attorney Kevin Donaldson.
“It is well settled that public schools, and by extension public school officials, may not advance or promote religion,” Elliott wrote.
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