Editorial: Court’s ruling on school prayer is supremely questionable
“There’s no crying in baseball,” said Tom Hanks’ baseball coach in “A League of Their Own.” But how about prayer on a public high school’s football field? After 60 years of precedent-setting battles to maintain a separation of church and state, that question has been thrown into confusion by the Supreme Court’s decision to side with a former high school football coach who held postgame prayer ...
“There’s no crying in baseball,” said Tom Hanks’ baseball coach in “A League of Their Own.”
But how about prayer on a public high school’s football field?
After 60 years of precedent-setting battles to maintain a separation of church and state, that question has been thrown into confusion by the Supreme Court’s decision to side with a former high school football coach who held postgame prayer circles on his then-employer’s 50-yard line.
Coach Joseph Kennedy lost his job at Bremerton High School, near Seattle, and claimed his First Amendment rights were violated when he was told by school officials to stop offering prayers
