Joe Kennedy, praying football coach, suspended

Joe Kennedy, Bremerton High School football coach in Washington, is standing strong on his right to pray.

Joe Kennedy, the public praying football coach at Bremerton High School in Washington, has been suspended from his position because he refused to stop expressing his Christian faith on the field’s 50–yard line, post–game.

“Effective immediately,” superintendent Aaron Leavell wrote in a letter to the coach, Fox News reported, “pending further District review of your conduct, you are placed on paid administrative leave from your position as an assistant coach with the Bremerton High School football program. You may not participate, in any capacity, in BHS football program activities.”

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Kennedy has been fighting for his right to continue his pre– and post–game prayers, some of which took place in the middle of the football field, for weeks now, as WND previously reported. In a mid–October appearance on Fox News, Kennedy described his reasons for praying: “It’s something that I kind of made an agreement with, my personal faith in God, that this is something I was going to do – give Him the glory after every single game and do it on the 50 and I’m kind of a guy of my word.”

As WND reported, he also clarified he’s prayed both before and after games for years for the safety of all the players, and oftentimes, players and visiting team members would join him on the field to bow their heads.

But now he’s facing firing.

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The school told him on September 17 to stop the public praying, and to cease and desist from performing any action that could be perceived as religious, including bowing his head or taking a bended knee.

Kennedy, however, citing his religious freedoms – as underscored through his Liberty Institute attorney – refused to stop.

“You violated those directives by engaging in overt, public and demonstrative religious conduct while still on duty as an assistant coach,” Leavell wrote, Fox News reported.

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Hiram Sasser, Kennedy’s attorney, said the school is acting in a hostile manner toward Christianity and “sending the message to all people of faith that they are not welcome,” he said, Fox reported.

Sasser also said Kennedy may sue.

“It is unfortunate this school district is choosing litigation,” he said, Fox News reported.

 

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