"Forcing religion on children": AG Healey knocks Supreme Court school prayer ruling

Cbsnews.com ^ | 06/27/2022 | CBS.com staff

[massmike]

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is among those criticizing Monday's Supreme Court ruling that sided with a Washington state high school football coach who lost his job for praying after games.

"The football field is for playing, not for forcing religion on children," Healey said in a statement. "I'm disappointed that the Court failed to recognize that team prayer can be coercive, alienating, and exclusionary for many student-athletes and their families."

[massmike]

This is the same woman that told women who were uncomfortable sharing bathrooms with biological men to just "hold it" until they got home.

[BenLurkin]

“team prayer can be coercive, alienating, and exclusionary”

Nothing compared to schools forcing perverted lifestyles onto children — with some schools actually punishing students who resist!

[pgyanke]

The only ones “forcing” anything are the atheists forcing their worldview on everyone!

[drSteve78]

Only Players who are Pray-ers would be on the field.

The sky is falling, chicken little.

[Tupelo]

I guess Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is confusing Freedom OF Religion with Freedom FROM Religion.
I find it very interesting that so many liberals do that.

[NWFree]

Forcing atheism on kids - that’s what bigoted libtards do 🤪

[Strident]

The snowflake sensibilities have borne ugly fruit. Oh the horror of seeing someone pray. And it’s not even to Moloch!

[Michael.SF.]

not for forcing religion on children

She did not read the facts of the case or the decision

[\/\/ayne]

What if a drag queen wants to pray with the children?

[PGR88]

the Court failed to recognize that team prayer can be coercive, alienating, and exclusionary for many student-athletes and their families."

Please remember that the next time schools promote diversity training, gender theory, racial "justice," gay pride, or anything connected with "wokeness."

[Gene Eric]

Or forcing the vax

[LambSlave]

It wasn’t a team prayer for starters, it was a personal prayer that the coach prayed after each game, win or lose.

[DoodleDawg]

Nobody was forcing anything on anyone. The coach took a knee after the game on his own. He didn’t invite anyone on the team to join him, though he didn’t turn them away either. It was entirely voluntary.

[proust]

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[AppyPappy]

Congress has now established Football as our national religion.

[sauropod]

So she is.

Let her stand forth.

[Flavious_Maximus]

“...It was entirely voluntary....”

Unlike when employers FORCE employees to participate and applaud homosexual activity. Remember when Google and the State Department put out a memo that said if you are silent during pride month then you are siding with the homophobes. Now that’s pressure, when your job is on the line.

[goodnesswins]

And “educators” NEVER force political propaganda on their students...

[Lockbox]

"The football field is for playing, not for forcing religion on children,"

But using sport teams to promote sex choices is ok?