Satanists to give invocation at high school football game

[jenny1972]

update :

the Bremerton School District placed coach Joe Kennedy on paid leave until he agrees not to pray while on duty as a coach. In a four-page statement Wednesday that appeared to have been written by lawyers, the Bremerton School District said it was placing the football coach on paid administrative leave over a prayer controversy that’s gone nationwide.

The school district made the announcement yesterday in a letter posted to their website. “While the District appreciates Kennedy’s many positive contributions to the BHS football program, and therefore regrets the necessity of this action, Kennedy’s conduct poses a genuine risk that the District will be liable for violating the federal and state constitutional rights of students or others,” the letter says. “For this reason, Kennedy will not be allowed to further violate the District’s directives.”

Responding to the letter and the paid leave, Mike Berry (senior counsel at the Liberty Institute) said his organization is “defending and preserving religious liberty in America. We’re prepared to take the necessary legal actions to defend Coach Kennedy’s religious freedom,” Berry said. “His religious expression is not something he should hide or be ashamed of. The letter follows a public announcement from the Satanic Temple of Seattle stating they’d be attending the game and potentially offering an invocation at the request of a student. They offered that given the inaction by Bremerton High School in stopping Kennedy from engaging in Christian prayer, the school opened up the venue to other forms of religious expression.

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