Joe Kennedy, a Seattle-area high school assistant football coach, was placed on leave back in October for refusing to stop inviting players for a midfield prayer after games. Now he’s fighting back.
Since he was hired in 2008, the widely beloved coach had a tradition of inviting players to join him at the 50-yard line after games for a time of prayer. The prayer session was entirely voluntary and the students kept their prayers private. Despite the innocuous nature of the years-long tradition, in 2015 the Bremerton School District abruptly decided that the practice was unacceptable.
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