Remember the coach in Bremerton, Washington who took his center field prayer meeting to SCOTUS?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/09/thou-shalt-not-bear-false-witnessunless.html

As we suspected all along, the case involving the football coach in Bremerton, Washington, Joseph Kennedy, wasn't about the prayer meeting itself, or his job. It was about the political publicity that it could, and now has, generated.

Kennedy sued the Bremerton school district claiming that he was fired because he refused to comply with their instructions that he should not lead a prayer meeting at the 50 yard line following games. But, here's the catch, he wasn't fired. He was suspended, with pay, received the full stipend for coaching for the season, and was offered a renewal on his contract. He no longer works for the school district as an assistant football coach, not because he was fired, as he claims, but because he never showed up to sign the contract renewal he was offered.

That wouldn't fit with the narrative that these mean, old liberals were trying to interfere with his religious freedom, even though what he was doing actually contradicted the constitution's establishment clause. But, and here's where the Supreme Court shows its incompetence and bias, he was not fired for failing to follow their directive.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Family Research Council is probably paying him a living stipend and covering his legal costs.

Thats what they do.

[rubbersole]

6. Is that Ralph Reed's grifting organization?

god made these money changers extremely rich.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. No, a different grift, Way before Trump. nt

[rubbersole]

8. I just remember Ralphie being Pat Robertson's alter boy.

I can't keep up with the holy political organizations. Thanks.

[czarjak]

9. Good to know. Paid piety be best, after all.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Nobody gets rich, being Christ-like.

That's why they had to reinteroret Christ.

[Aristus]

2. It's all part of their feverish, desperate attempt to be seen as an oppressed minority.

I don’t know why they think that’s something to aspire to, when real oppressed minorities will tell them that it’s no picnic.

[magicarpet]

3. Have they broken ground yet....

.... to build a Christian church at the 50 yard line yet ?

[plimsoll]

4. That decision is another one that makes a mess of equal protection.

As stated earlier the wingnut welfare system kicked in to support him pay the legal fees, but in essence the decision from the Supreme Court is not only that the establishment clause doesn't mean what it says (so much for originalism, it says what we want it to, so there), but that certain groups have greater protection under the law.

It bogles the mind, well not Alito's but that twisted little rat maze probably can't be bogled.

[The Wizard]

5. Professional victim for profit

in the name of god. Performance artists and exhibitionist hucksters. Plunging the depths. The easily fooled are their own worst enemy. Those who subscribed to the deliberate dumbing down are reaping the benefits by scaring unwitting rubes and dupes. Who loves the poorly educated?

[gopiscrap]

11. that sounds like a fraudulent claim

made in a court of law he should be charged with perjury and fraud

[lees1975]

12. And take note of the fact that those "mean old liberals" didn't threaten civil war nor did they

refuse to follow the court's ruling, even though it was not consistent with the constitution's first amendment establishment clause and they disagreed with the court's interpretation. They had never fired him, they had only suspended his participation until the court ruled. then, as ordered, they offered him a contract for the coming season. His actions, not showing up to sign the renewal but instead choosing to hit the speaker circuit, shows he didn't have much concern about leading the players, other students and parents in prayer, but was more interested in grandstanding the whole thing. Otherwise, he'd be there now.

[Blue Owl]

13. Trivial Timmy Tebow bullshit

But of course there was some other bullshit behind it...