SCOTUS: Coach Gets to Pray
SCOTUS Decision is here.
Facts of the Case
According to the Majority opinion, this transpired:
For over seven years, no one complained to the Bremerton School District (District) about these practices. It seems the District’s superintendent first learned of them only in September 2015, after an employee from another school commented positively on the school’s practices to Bremerton’s principal. See id., at 109, 229. At that point, the District reacted quickly. On September 17, the superintendent sent Mr. Kennedy a letter. In it, the superintendent identified “two problematic practices” in which Mr. Kennedy had engaged. App. 40. First, Mr. Kennedy had provided “inspirational talk[s]” that included “overtly religious references” likely constituting “prayer” with the students “at midfield following the completion of. . . game[s].” Ibid. Second, he had led “students and coaching staff in a prayer” in the locker-room tradition that “predated [his] involvement with the program.” Id., at 41.
My Analysis
After seven years, whereby this practice had occurred, the superintendent, who undoubtedly had an agenda [guised as protection], stopped a positive practice, that, likely as not, had a positive impact on players. The players grew to appreciate the guidance towards positivity, and even, introspection regarding a God. God forbid someone set forth a positive example.
One of the stark realities of the debasing of American culture is the militant adoption of a hands-off, Marxist philosophical and scholastic approach. This while teachers are allowed to promote CRT, Environmental Justice, and a host of atheistic and scientism-related topics, under a revisionist 1619 project guise of “grievance studies based in hatred of American Constitutionalism.” One should undoubtedly see nothing wrong with the expression of faith or religion overtly at a football game, either beginning or end. Not by force of attendance – the students were not asked or required into that attendance – or even, disallowing a single coach to practice his faith (as he did after obeying the administrator’s request). But by a free individual choice and without any repercussions for not doing so. That represents a fair practice of believes or values. Allow people the rights to do equally the same.
Climate activism poses itself as a scientifically-based practice. Yet, it hardly qualifies if it ignores numerical analysis and current supply chain and energy realities of the very thing it seeks to improve upon – the climate. (In some respects, today’s Climate Propaganda is far, far worse than the stories in the Bible that have basis in a historical context. Bible’s recorded history as it was several thousand years ago is not merely about teachings, but also people that were historical figures captured in the passages.)
CRT is based off Marxist economic philosophy that poisoned most of the 20th century to the point of millions dead in a host of countries that adopted some or nearly all of Karl’s tenets. (USSR and China are the biggest examples). People complain, tangentially, and rightly so, in some respects, about “capitalism.” The problem is: people misattribute the activity labeled Capitalism with the perversion of it through massive amoral cabals of corporatism that has devolved into merely regulation-favored monopolies aligned to their federal governments (Fascism). This has become the backdoor used in 2020-22. This too eliminated any faith-based discussions for the hording of all resources under a WEF marriage that of Fasco-Communism. (Done so because of debt levels across the Western World. Ponzi scheme that is about to pop.)
A coach was teaching values that are the antithesis of this worldwide agenda to destroy all faith and subjugate the populations by non-faith based activities. The divide here has never been more clear: we have a right to practice our faith anywhere we like, and with few restrictions. The STATE has, by far, encroached itself into our daily lives, with an overt atheistic dogma, that would make even our more Deity-lacking Founders blush at its subversive pervasiveness.
Not surprisingly, only six justices understood the case and ruled to favor a faith practitioner, a single man that happened to coach young men on a football field. A field that can be the only place a positive message is received daily. A place where kids learn teamwork and fair play and support of their fellow man, even in a sports-related battle. Reflect on how sad that is.