A high school football coach loses again in his court battle against a school district who fired him for praying on the 50-yard line following games after a federal judge ruled against him last week.
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton sided with Bremerton School District in Washington state, ruling that the district’s right to block coach Joe Kennedy’s religious expression when it violates the Constitution’s Establishment Clause came before a public-school educator’s right to free religious expression.
