Supreme Court sides with coach in public school prayer case - WFIN Local News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : At the same time, the court has ruled that free speech rights don't end at the schoolhouse gate and that religion need not be entirely expunged from public schools.
57% : The First Amendment protects free speech and free exercise of religion, but it also prohibits the establishment of religion by the government.
56% : That's why, when we learned that a district employee was leading students in prayer, we followed the law and acted to protect the religious freedom of all students and their families," it said.
52% : She said the free exercise clause serves as "a promise from our government" while the establishment clause serves as a "backstop that disables our government from breaking it" and "start[ing] us down the path to the past, when [the right to free exercise] was routinely abridged.""It elevates one individual's interest in personal religious exercise, in the exact time and place of that individual's choosing, over society's interest in protecting the separation between church and state, eroding the protections for religious liberty for all," she wrote.
49% : In her dissent, Sotomayor introduced the case as being "about whether a public school must permit a school official to kneel, bow his head, and say a prayer at the center of a school event," and wrote, "The Constitution does not authorize, let alone require, public schools to embrace this conduct."
45% : That's what the First Amendment protects us from."
44% : "Both the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect expressions like Mr. Kennedy's," Gorsuch wrote.

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