The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a football coach from Washington state who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games.
Joe Kennedy, a former assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Wash., at the school's football field, on March 9, 2022. who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games.
"The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority. The decision is the latest in a line of Supreme Court rulings for religious plaintiffs. In another recent example, the court ruled that Maine can't exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations' access to taxpayer money.
That the court ruled for the coach is perhaps not surprising. In 2019, the court declined to take up the case at an early stage, but four of the court's conservatives agreed that a lower court decision in favour of the school district was "troubling" for its "understanding of the free speech rights of public school teachers."
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