School Prayer // Football

URL:http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/14/exclusive-football-coach-says-will-defy-schools-prayer-ban.html

There has always been plenty of controversy about religious freedom and what the limits of the subject are. Joe Kennedy, a high school football coach in Washington that leads a group of boys at Bremerton High School has done something like plenty of other schools have done before. The boys at Bremerton kneel down on one knee and pray before every game, and each time Joe Kennedy would lead this prayer praising God no matter what the end result of the game was. This was not something new, the coach had done this for years and some students had started to join him voluntarily. So he decided to take it a step further and have a post game prayer.

Our family is a Christian family that believes in God and also prayer to God. Prayer is an expression of our faith and our identities. We pray at home during our meals. Most of the time we also bow our heads and say verbal prayer before eating meals even out at a restaurant. From our family's perspective, there is nothing "unlawful" about public prayer.

This article is about the freedom of religious expression. Like in many other cases, this involves a public school and some type of group in the school that wants to do some public prayer. Usually the public school would say that prayer is not allowed because of the separation of church and state. But the Constitution does say that we have the right to religious expression, but the Constitution says that the state is not to establish any religion. These are usually the 2 sides to the argument in cases like this article.