Supreme Court says Bremerton coach had a right to pray on field | Crosscut

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Lower courts had sided with the Bremerton School District, but the case was watched closely to see if the conservative majority on the Supreme Court would turn the tide in favor of Joe Kennedy, a former Bremerton High School assistant football coach -- and set precedents that challenge the long-standing separation of church and state in public schools.
48% : "The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression," the opinion said.
48% : "There are coaches that want to kneel in support of Black Lives Matter.
47% : In another case, Carson vs. Makin, the Supreme Court has decided that if the state of Maine allows some public funding of rural private schools it must also allow that money to be spent for private school tuition.
46% : Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is just one case before the Supreme Court this year centered on religion in public schools.

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