Coach Prayer Case at High Court to Test Limits of Religious Acts

A U.S. Supreme Court case pitting a former high school football coach against the school district that fired him for mid-field prayer after games will explore the confusing boundaries that surround religious expression at work.

Joe Kennedy, the former coach of the Bremerton High School Knights, contends that his free speech and religious exercise rights to have a “solitary” or “private prayer” at work are at risk after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in March sided with the Bremerton School District in Washington. The district, however, says that the law is clear and that validating such ...