Bremerton assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, obscured at center in blue, is surrounded by Centralia High School football players as they kneel and pray with him on the field after their game on Oct. 16, 2015, in Bremerton, Washington. After losing his coaching job for refusing to stop kneeling in prayer with players and spectators on the field immediately after football games, Kennedy took his arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which last week ruled Kennedy had a right to pray with players on the field. (Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP, File)AP COLUMBUS, Ohio — With the fuss about the Supreme Court’s decision last month to unravel abortion rights, a more sweeping and dangerous opinion was handed down by the court last Monday. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District , Justice Neil Gorsusch ruled that a public school football coach possessed a First Amendment right to pray on the 50-yard line surrounded by players and parents. While this result was expected from what has become the most pro-Christian Supreme Court in more than 50 years, a key piece of Gorsuch’s reasoning was a bit of a surprise. Gorsuch and his pro-religion majority overturned a 1971 Supreme Court opinion, […]
