US supreme court rules in favor of high school football coach over on-field prayers – as it happened
by Joan E Greve in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#60T1P)
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Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch argued that football coach Joseph Kennedy had a right to publicly pray after games because he was not requiring others to participate in the practice.
Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a high school football coach because he knelt at midfield after games to offer a quiet prayer of thanks," Gorsuch wrote.
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