Supreme Court agrees to hear case against Bremerton schools about on-field prayers
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a former Bremerton High School assistant football coach who alleged he was fired in 2015 for refusing to stop praying on the field following games, attorneys on both sides of the issue said Friday.
The high court, with what’s been described as a 6-3 “super majority” of conservative justices, agreed to hear the case brought by Joe Kennedy in the highly politicized conflict.
District officials in 2015 had told Kennedy to stop praying on the field at the 50-yard line, which Kennedy refused. His contract to coach was not renewed the next season.
The case made Kennedy a cause celebre, for both religious conservatives saying they were protecting the rights of religious people as well as opponents who contended that allowing the prayers violates the separation between church and state. At one Bremerton Knights football game in 2015, a local Satanic Temple demonstrated outside the Memorial Stadium gates after requesting time on the field.
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Bremerton is across the Puget Sound from Seattle.
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