Joe Kennedy expects to return for the 2023 season — but the prayer case’s impact could go far beyond the high school football field. FILE – 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 against Bremerton on Oct. 16, 2015, in Bremerton, Wash. After losing his coaching job for refusing to stop kneeling in prayer with players and spectators on the field immediately after football games, Kennedy will take his arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, April 25, 2022, saying the Bremerton School District violated his First Amendment rights by refusing to let him continue praying at midfield after games. (Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP, File) Bremerton High School’s 2022 football season came and went without Coach Joe Kennedy, six years after the assistant coach lost his job after praying on the field after games. But by spring 2023, Kennedy could be back on the sidelines, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in July that the Bremerton School District had violated Kennedy’s First Amendment rights of free speech and the exercise of […]
