Discrimination, oppression, and the War on Christianity

[Mister Agenda]

It's immoral and outside of your beliefs to have public prayers when you're the coach? I've read the Bible cover-to-cover twice and can't remember that being anywhere. I do remember a bit in Matthew about praying in private, though. Sound like you at least got your reward, Tack.

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Um, generically speaking, coaches aren't released because they pray, they get released for getting other people to pray in their capacity as a representative for the institution they're coaching for. Protecting people from having an authority figure who may have influence over things like who starts and who gets benched is preventing the coach from oppressing them; not oppressing the coach. If I hire a Muslim or a Hindu to coach the problem with them organizing prayers seems to be readily apparent to all concerned, but if the coach is a Christian, somehow it's a mystery. If you're not capable of performing the tasks of your job as outlined by your employer, you're in the wrong job; like a Muslim bartender who refuses to mix drinks because he views it as against his religion. Well, he shouldn't be a bartender, should he?

I was an assistant volunteer coach. We having a team prayer for years and pray over our victory meals. It wasn't until an atheist parent's child joined and they felt the need to make it a point that I was released to save the drama. At no point was there discrimination or oppression of the boys based on their participation in the prayer or personal beliefs it was solely a SJW point. At no point was anyone forced to participate. I will agree that telemarketing wasn't the job for me. But I was still fired for refusing to lie. If I weren't a Christian and just refused to lie I probably would have been fired as well, so that's probably a bad example.

If you were coaching at a public school, the point they made of it may have been that your activities were illegal. And the courts have made quite a point that coaches and teachers have too much authority to be pretending that there isn't an element of coercion involved when they start promoting their personal views. Also, 'argument from tradition' is a fallacy. Having done something for a long time is not a justification for continuing to do it.