Fresh from its controversial abortion ban, the US Supreme Court on Monday, June 27 ruled 6-3 in favor of a Washington state high school football coach who was fired from his job for silently praying on the field after games. Coach #joekennedy has been battling the #bremertonschooldistrict since 2015. The school claimed that his prayers violated the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution and he shouldn't have been praying in a public school. Therefore they fired him. But the supreme court has now ruled that Bremerton School District actually violated Coach Kennedy's First Amendment rights. SCOTUS Blog tweeted, "SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach's free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games." The court pointed out that teachers and students alike still maintain their freedom of speech, even if they're working at a state-funded school. "When it comes to Mr. Kennedy's free speech claim, our precedents remind us that the First Amendment's protections extend to 'teachers and students,' neither of whom 'shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,'" the majority opinion stated. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority, “The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike.” #mycelebrityandi https://www.instagram.com/p/CfV__fzr63V/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
