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Legal Docket

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4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Kennedy v. Bremerton School District: Joe Kennedy was a football coach for Bremerton School District, a public school in Washington. He had a practice of praying on the 50-yard-line at the end of each game, sometimes with students. He also held pre-game locker room prayers with players and spoke about faith in motivational talks. When the school learned of his practices, it feared those practices violated the First Amendment’s establishment clause. Kennedy stopped his locker room prayers and religious references in talks, but continued his midfield prayers. When he lost his job for that, he sued, claiming the school violated his First Amendment rights of free speech and freedom of religion. Legal Docket is made possible in part by Samaritan Ministries, a Biblical and affordable solution to health care, connecting more than 280,000 Christians across the nation who help pay one another’s medical bills. More at samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-1378669/episodes/e-88370040/edit/samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast).

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O Lord, please hear my prayer,

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in the morning when I rise,

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be sure that God for glory.

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O Lord, please hear my prayer,

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As the late preacher and author John Stott once said,

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prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him

0:57.0

and our humble dependence on Him.

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Today, we'll meet a man whose simple prayers of need, dependence and gratitude

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landed him at a place he'd never seen before,

1:08.0

and didn't recognize when he did see it for the first time.

1:11.0

The Supreme Court.

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I don't know what it is.

1:20.0

Football fields, he knows,

1:22.0

green grass and clear markings,

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not a jumble of white marble federal buildings.

1:27.0

This is Joe Kennedy, high school football coach.

1:30.0

His post-game prayers are the subject of an oral argument at the highest court in the land,

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and peas in town with one of his lawyers, preparing.

1:39.0

We met Kennedy in his lawyer last April when he was there.

1:43.0

First Liberty Institute is representing him pro bono.

1:46.0

Kennedy is dressed in jeans, a zip up hoodie,

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and a blue jacket that says Bremerton football.

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