Editorial: Supreme Court gets it wrong: What's private about a coach's post-game prayers?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : When it comes to religion, the First Amendment is full of contradictions.
57% : But with that influence comes responsibility -- and one of the responsibilities coaches in public schools have is not to leave some portion of students excluded or alienated because they have a different faith or different manner of expressing it.
56% : They involve core principles of our democracy, including religious liberty and the separation of church and state.
53% :Were this truly, as the court alleges, about a school employee expressing his religious views in a quiet, personal moment in between duties, we'd likely have applauded such an expansion of individual speech rights or religious freedoms.
52% : The courts have long insisted that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment meant that officials could not lead prayers when a reasonable person would see them as a form of endorsement of one religion over another, or even of faith itself.
51% : "Official-led prayer strikes at the core of our constitutional protections for the religious liberty of students and their parents, as embodied in both the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment," Sotomayor wrote.
42% : On the one hand, it forbids any government action that could be seen as establishing a preferred religion; on the other hand, it guarantees individuals the right to free exercise of their religion.

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