SCOTUS to hear case on football coach’s prayer 00:00 00:0003:10GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay An op-ed published Monday by NBC News proceeded to sound the alarm over the Supreme Court potentially siding with former high school football coach Joe Kennedy in his lawsuit against the Bremerton, Washington school district following his firing for on-field prayers. Writing in the op-ed, liberal University of Miami law professor Caroline Mala Corbin warned that if the court sided with Kennedy it would "bulldoze over protections for minorities in the name of religious liberty," and that it would continue a line of other cases in which the court "has allowed Christians to violate anti-discrimination laws." Former Bremerton, Washington high school football coach Joe Kennedy. (First Liberty Institute) CONSERVATIVE SCOTUS JUSTICES OFFER TACIT SUPPORT FOR FOOTBALL COACH’S ON-FIELD PRAYER "Once again, the Supreme Court may bulldoze over protections for minorities in the name of religious liberty," Corbin wrote. "In recent cases, the Supreme Court has allowed Christians to violate anti-discrimination laws designed to protect the LGBTQ community." "Now, in a case on which it heard oral arguments Monday, the court may privilege a coach’s Christian practice over the U.S. Constitution itself — […]
