The nation’s highest court announced in January it will hear the appeal of Kennedy, who is known as the “kneeling coach” at Bremerton High for praying after home football games at the 50-yard line. That ritual ultimately cost the assistant coach his job in 2015, when he refused to stop, and his court fight against Bremerton School District has been bouncing around the courts ever since. He has also lost a string of appeals until the high court agreed to hear his case.
Bremerton School District is represented by attorneys at atheist group Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which is notorious for fighting public expressions of faith.
Kennedy is represented by First Liberty Institute.
In a Feb. 18 filing, attorneys for Americans United petitioned the high court to declare Kennedy’s appeal “moot” because he is suing to return to his coaching job but he and his wife are now residents in Florida. The filing, which can be viewed here, includes Facebook posts showing the coach and his wife, Denise, announced the move in March 2020 when they purchased a home, enjoyed a visit to the beach, and registered to vote.
Elsewhere in their petition, the atheist attorneys state that Kennedy is currently living 2,800 miles away — Americans United apparently estimated the distance — from his old job at Bremerton High, and that means it would be unlikely Kennedy would return to Washington for his former coaching job, the attorneys claim. That 2,800-mile distance is also too far for Kennedy to commute to work, the attorneys also argue, so it is unlikely he would benefit from a court ruling in his favor.
According to the petition, the “year-round time commitment” to be physically present at Bremerton High, and a small stipend for junior-high coaching duties, “would not appear to allow for petitioner to commute to Washington from Florida, where petitioner and his wife have resided since at least 2020.”
Reacting to the filing, First Liberty Institute attorney Stephanie Taub insists the issue could have been cleared up with a phone call among attorneys.
“Coach Kennedy temporarily moved to Florida,” Taub explains, “to take care of his father-in-law, who is undergoing very difficult circumstances, including losing his job and suffering from multiple ailments including cancer.”
The coach and his wife plan to move back to Washington if the Supreme Court rules in his favor, she tells American Family News, so the issue of his current residence is really a non-issue in a case about First Amendment rights.
According to First Liberty, the coach’s current residency is not the real reason for the latest filing.
“The school district really doesn’t want the court to take this case,” says Taub. “They want to try to make the case go away.”
Shame on that coach for traumatizing the non-Christians—the atheists—the whomever else who have incurred such extreme mental and emotional distress as a result of a prayer. These nut cases are always standing in the need of prayer and doing everything they can to stand in the way of it.
I am reminded of former Washington Redskins coach, Joe Gibbs. Yep—I still call them the Redskins—get over it.
I hope Kennedy achieves victory.
So according to the ATHEIST hethans, ‘because he lives so far away, the case should be thrown out of court’.
BUT BY THAT LOGIC< why then has so many lawsuits the LEFT HAS SHOVED INTO the courts, been from folks THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM WHERE IT WOULD AFFECT THEM????
The nation’s highest court announced in January it will hear the appeal of Kennedy, who is known as the “kneeling coach” at Bremerton High for praying after home football games at the 50-yard line.
#1. Prove that that he is praying.
All that can be proven is that he kneels down.
#2. It appears to be perfectly OK by Democrats for football players to kneel down during the U.S. National Anthem.
Because honoring god to them is a no no but Disrespecting the country that they live in, is a-ok.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Just what is it about the King’s English that forces the seculars to communicate in inane doublespeak? They have no problem forcing their religion of secular socialism down the throat of Christians expecting WE THE PEOPLE to just shut up and submit.
“What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.” – Nazi Joseh Goebbels.
“To be a socialist,” says Goebbels, “is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
“By this definition, the Nazis practiced what they preached. They practiced it at home and then abroad. No one can claim that they did not sacrifice enough individuals.” -Ayn Rand
They will argue, a ‘school prohibting him, is NOT “Congress making the law”, ergo its not a violation of the 1st amendment.
Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
There IS NO Amendment or anywhere in the U.S. Constitution that rules the separation of Church and State.
These Dishonorable, treasonous, socialist, atheist Democrat Party’s phony crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the sensitivities of atheist Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of Christian discrimination. For their cause is not defending the atheist or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political Con.
The demonic Democrats DO NOT want anyone to worship God, the demonic Democrats want everyone to worship them and their Satin.
The “tolerant” left who preach “inclusiveness and diversity”, as long as one is not a Conservative! Hypocrites!!!!
Like i keep saying, they are AKIN to the borg.. YOU will only follow the collective.. or else.