Cardinal Dolan Says Court Decision Allowing High School Coach to Pray a 'Major Victory' - The Tablet

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Haun cited past situations where governments have cited the establishment clause -- the clause in the First Amendment that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress -- to say people can't have religion in public life.
55% : Religious liberty advocates are hailing a June 27 Supreme Court decision that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team's games as a landmark ruling for religious exercise in public life.
55% : After the ruling, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, chair of the USCCB Committee for Religious Liberty, released a statement that "we must always remember the importance of prayer in American life.""The freedom to pray is essential to the moral duty all people possess toward the truth," Cardinal Dolan said.
54% :Speaking with The Tablet, William Haun, senior counsel at Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the organization that filed the USCCB friend-of-the-court brief argued that the ruling is even farther reaching than that cited by Shackelford.
50% : These include not allowing religious displays in public areas, religious advertisements on public transit, houses of worship access to public preservation grants, and religious groups access to meeting spaces in public schools after hours.
47% : Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, arguing that Kennedy's actions were protected by the First Amendment.
45% : "Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment."
41% : "The Supreme Court said today that our best traditions, which is what the First Amendment protects, are ones that respect religious pluralism and that sees a value in having people have respect and appreciation for the religious exercise of others in public life," Haun said.

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