She added: "It is a slippery slope to religion being used to discriminate and exclude." You don't want the bench," said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which is representing the school board. Jackie to Me: Reflections on Jackie Robinson's lasting legacy.Bremerton public school officials removed him from his job in 2015 after he refused to stop his on-field prayers, which they said violated the Constitution's prohibition against government endorsement of religion. Yet the 52-year-old finds himself out of coaching and in the midst of a raging legal battle ignited when he insisted on taking a knee at midfield to pray after games, often with students. "I'd take a knee and thank God for what the guys just did and the opportunity to be a coach," Kennedy told ESPN, adding: "I wanted to hang out with my players and develop these young men." Ted Cruz and former President Donald Trump.Īll he wanted, he says, was to connect with young people by coaching football, and to connect with God by saying a brief midfield prayer after each game.
Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy says he never wanted to become a symbol of the religious right, or to have his name mentioned by political figures including Sen.
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