SCOTUS Rules 6-3 In Favor of Coach In Religious Freedom Case

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Supreme court rules in favor of former coach criticized for praying
The supreme court has started to release its next round of decisions, and the first case is Kennedy v Bremerton School District.

The case focuses on Joseph Kennedy, a former football coach at a public high school who clashed with his employer over his practice of praying with some of his players after games.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservatives ruled that the school district had violated Kennedy’s First Amendment rights by terminating his employment.

“The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the opinion. “The Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression.”

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The supreme court’s three liberal justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer – filed a dissenting opinion to conservatives’ decision in Kennedy v Bremerton School District.

In the dissent, Sotomayor argues that conservatives’ ruling for Kennedy, a former football coach criticized for publicly praying after games, ignores the establishment clause of the US constitution.

The establishment clause stipulates that the government cannot “establish” a religion, in order to protect the separation of church and state.

“Official-led prayer strikes at the core of our constitutional protections for the religious liberty of students and their parents, as embodied in both the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment,” Sotomayor writes.

“The Court now charts a different path, yet again paying almost exclusive attention to the Free Exercise Clause’s protection for individual religious exercise while giving short shrift to the Establishment Clause’s prohibition on state establishment of religion.”

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

The wins keep on coming!


Personally I think this threatening of the Supreme Court Justices has hardened there stances and the left just made more decisions like this coming with their threats and violence.

 

[Webster]

The wins keep on coming!

Say whatever you want about him, but his three SCOTUS nominations will be remembered for decades to come.