High school coach from "Kennedy v. Bremerton School District" releases book

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hat tip, SCOTUSblog

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Monday, October 23

By Ellena Erskine
on Oct 23, 2023 at 10:34 am

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• ‘Average Joe’: Coach Kennedy releases book about Supreme Court victory, his life and childhood (Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

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Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Monday, October 23, SCOTUSblog (Oct. 23, 2023, 10:34 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/10/the-morning-read-for-monday-october-23/

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‘Average Joe’: Coach Kennedy releases book about Supreme Court victory, his life and childhood

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter https://twitter.com/MichaelGryboski

The Washington state high school football coach at the center of a major United States Supreme Court decision on Christian prayer at public schools will soon be releasing a book about his life and the high-profile case.

Joe Kennedy, the former football coach at Bremerton High School who initially lost his job because of his practice of praying at the 50-yard-line following games, has written a book titled Average Joe, which is slated for release on Oct. 24.

In it, Kennedy describes the behind-the-scenes experiences he had over the course of eight years, from when he filed his lawsuit against the school district until the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last year that school officials were wrong to punish him.

"Kennedy prayed during a period when school employees were free to speak with a friend, call for a reservation at a restaurant, check email, or attend to other personal matters. He offered his prayers quietly while his students were otherwise occupied. Still, the Bremerton School District disciplined him anyway," wrote Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for the majority.

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[Bluethroughu]

1. I wouldn't spend a penny on this book.

If someone gave it to me for free, I'd toss it in the trash.

I'm not interested in being evangelized.

[underpants]

2. This case was fake. SCOTUS has ruled on 2 maybe 3 fake cases recently

The Supreme Court’s Fake Praying Coach Case Just Got Faker

This final chapter of the “Coach Kennedy” saga was foreseeable—inevitable, really—well before the Supreme Court handed down its decision in June 2022. Kennedy has lived in Florida for years, which the court knew but ignored in its race to use his case as a vehicle to expand prayer in public schools. It’s the mirror image of 303 Creative v. Elenis, the big religious freedom case handed down this June, which also rested on allegations that ranged from tenuous to outright bogus. The problem here is simple: Conservative litigators want this Supreme Court to expand a vision of religious liberty that abolishes the separation of church and state while granting Christians a freewheeling right to discriminate, often with public funding. They are seizing upon any case that will give the court this opportunity, with little concern for the truth of the underlying claims. And the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to twist reality into whatever shape necessary to give them what they want.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/supreme-court-praying-coach-joe-kennedy-fake.html

[Bluethroughu]

4. Oh I understand it well, I could see this coming

A mile away when Bush granted public money to religious organizations after Katrina...it's nothing more than money laundering to the Republicon party. Look how these religious representatives act and what they say. The IRS could make some major money from these BS 501c3s. TAX THE RELIGIOUS ORGS on all their assets.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. That goes for me, too, Bluethroughu.