Posted on 03/25/2023 6:32:16 PM PDT by marshmallow
The reinstatement and financial settlement come nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor and nearly eight years after his initial 2015 firing.
BREMERTON, Washington (LifeSiteNews) –– After a years-long legal battle, Christian high school assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy has been reinstated to his position and awarded nearly $2 million after he was fired for leading players in prayer after each game.
“Mr. Kennedy will be an assistant football coach for Bremerton High School for the 2023 season,” the Bremerton School District in Washington said in a March 6 statement on its website. “Mr. Kennedy has completed human resources paperwork and we are awaiting the results of his fingerprinting and background check.”
Less than two weeks after the announcement of his rehiring, the district announced March 16 that it had accepted a $1.78 million settlement with Kennedy.
The reinstatement and financial settlement comes nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, and nearly eight years after his initial 2015 firing.
“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a personal religious observance, based on a mistaken view that it has a duty to suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the court’s June 27 majority opinion.
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Wow, such great news! That’s an excellent statement by Gorsuch.
If I were him, I would be very vocal in my prayers of thanksgiving for the $2M :)
So leftist educrats got to harass this man, and skate-away, and taxpayers get to pay him $2 million.
How much really got into the hands of the coach? 25%?
Wonderful!
Well, here’s hoping coach Kennedy spends it well.
Best news of the day today.
I am okay with it. He deserves it.
Amen 🙏🏻!!!!
Yeah!
The story is mistaken (more bad “journalism”). He didn’t lead his players in prayer, he prayed by himself. That was the right USOC protected.
More than that.
No taxes. Lawyers likely took a third
USOC=USSC
Good for him!
Every once in a while we win one!
praise God!
Good news story of the day. Now we need to get the leftists to pay the $2M fine, not the taxpayer.
A list of prayers by presidents https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/faith-tools/meditation/2005/01/prayers-of-the-presidents.aspx
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