Posted on 09/16/2015 3:07:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An investigation has been opened into the religious practices of a popular football coach in Washington.
Joe Kennedy is the junior varsity coach and assistant coach of Bremerton’s varsity football team.
Recently, he says he was told that he would be fired if he continued to lead his players in prayer on the 50-yard line following football games.
Sophomore quarterback Savante Perrigo says the prayers are voluntary and even remembers a time when one player told the coach he didn’t believe in God.
“He didn’t get punished for it. He just sat out and just waited for the rest of the team to finish the prayer,” Perrigo said.
Kennedy says he served with the United States Marine Corps. for 20 years to fight for citizens’ freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
“I’m just exercising my right,” Kennedy told KING. “The competition is over and I just thank God for every one of these young men that are out here.”
The district wouldn’t comment on the case, but district policy states that staff members cannot “encourage nor discourage” students from engaging in prayer.
If he led them in a locker room orgy, he’d be a hero, but a prayer is intolerable.
If Democrats win the White House again next year, expect a lot more of this.
Ridiculous!
Just have the team captain say the prayer. that will shut them up.
Schools are strict about banning the worship of God, while demanding tolerance of sexual deviancy, all financed by the tax dollars of so-called Christians. Why should God bless this country?
The schools don’t seem to have any problem promoting Islam and forcing kids to pray to Allah.
While the clown teacher who instructed students to participate in Muslim prayer only got blowback from parents...
They’ll take all the decent people away from young men, but they’ll DEMAND that pedophiles be made scoutmasters. This is called tolerance.
He should have known that doing prayers on government owned anything is risky. Thank goodness that 3 generations of my family have or are in Catholic School. Couldn’t imagine having to be so careful to not say God or Jesus in the presence of public school kids.
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
Your deduction is correct.
This article says it is high school.
“H.S. Football Coach Under Investigation for Praying After Games”
My husband lost his job after 20 years of teaching. The reason they were going to terminate him was that he allowed student led discussion of religion in class. It would have clearly been wrongful termination, but due to how he was treated by the administration he opted for the (very modest) stettlement and resigned. The way things are changing he is glad to be out. Now he just needs another full time job.
His new principal made it very clear she would not tolerate Christians in her school during her first few years there. All the others resigned or transferred to the elementary school. She also wouldn’t tolerate failing students who didn’t pass their courses (another teacher was told she’d be fired for actually failing students who didn’t meet class requirements to get a D) or being in the school building more than two days a week. She likes to go to meetings off site at least three days a week, every single week.
Two minutes on Google would give you the answer. I am not surprised that a home schooling advocate is too lazy to look these things up.
I was sure enough that I didn’t need google.
And I was proved right.
Glad your husband is away from that place and I pray he finds a much better job that makes him happy quickly.
The public school children have no choice but to be under the control of anti-Christ school leaders. Our nation is disgusting.
So let me get this straight: A person who ships their child off to school and allows another to teach them is “industrious”, but someone who chooses to take on the responsibility of teaching their own child (usually while the other parent works 50, 60, sometimes 70 hours a week - or even two jobs) is “lazy”? You must have different definitions of those words than I do...
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