Supremes Give Praying Coach His TD

God’s judgments are always just as is Supreme Court’s ruling that a high school football coach’s reverent prayer after games is Constitutional. Finally, the majority of Justices gave an Amen to 1st Amendment’s “dual” protections.

As the WSJ concluded, the 6-3 decision in Kennedy v Bremerton School District is a “touchdown for religious liberty.” The facts are these per Justice Gorsuch writing for the majority: “The school in Washington state punished [fired] Coach Joseph Kennedy ‘for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance’ … the Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.” As Justice Gorsuch noted, if Mr. Kennedy’s action is considered government speech or some kind of “establishing” one religion over another with the implicit or explicit power of the “government”, then, “a school could fire a Muslim teacher for wearing a headscarf in the classroom or prohibit a Christian aide from praying quietly over her lunch in the cafeteria.”

The left dissenters led by the ever-blind guide Justice Sotomayor insisted the school had constitutionally “accommodated” the coach by offering him a quiet place to kneel away from the field of play [btw, NOT in a nearby porta potty]. But, Justice Gorsuch would have none of it, reminding his colleague that the 1st Amendment protects religious liberty just as much as free speech. Fortunately, the majority finally, unequivocally agreed with him in calling such overreaching progressive nonsense the unconstitutional “discrimination” it really was, both in Heaven & on Earth.

Davd Soul