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High school football coach fired for prayer wins $1.7M settlement, will get job back
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:12 am
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:12 am
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Joseph Kennedy, the Washington state high school football coach who lost his job after leading students in midfield prayers after games, will reportedly collect a $1.7 million settlement and get his job back next season. The Bremerton school board voted unanimously last week to accept the massive settlement, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s split decision last June that Kennedy’s prayer groups were protected by the First Amendment, according to the Seattle Times.
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Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:15 am to TigerVespamon
Coach Kennedy walking back into the locker room tomorrow $1.7M richer.
This post was edited on 3/22/23 at 7:16 am
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:16 am to TigerVespamon
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will get job back
Not sure I would want the job back...
Good for him though...
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:17 am to TigerVespamon
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follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s split decision last June that Kennedy’s prayer groups were protected by the First Amendment, according to the Seattle Times.
The Supreme Court should have ruled unanimously in favor. This country is fricked.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:18 am to TigerVespamon
Score one for the good guys!
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:21 am to Jack Carter
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The Supreme Court should have ruled unanimously in favor. This country is fricked.
3 justices ruled that we don't have the freedom to pray after a football game. What is this country coming to. So glad Trump appointed those three justices. Imagine what this country would be like if that was Hillary Clinton appointing those justices.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:23 am to TigerVespamon
For these zealots. It is about making examples out of openly Christian people in schools.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:48 am to TigerVespamon
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will reportedly collect a $1.7 million settlement
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get his job back next season
Not a fricking chance in this world would I go back.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 7:52 am to TigerVespamon
Whats sad, like all the lawsuits against School Boards for all their bullshite is the members never feel the penalty, its the tax payer.
The person who terminated him should have to pay the penalty.
The person who terminated him should have to pay the penalty.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:00 am to lsujunky
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Not a fricking chance in this world would I go back
You would if your pension was tied to your job as a state educator. If he says frick it, there’s no guarantee another state school hires him. By going back he’s still able to accrue time towards his retirement.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:00 am to lsujunky
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Not a fricking chance in this world would I go back.
I can see it. He probably loved his job and his players and coworkers.
He's $1.7M richer and he gets to do what he loves. Suits at the school board aren't ruining that.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:03 am to The Maj
I’d shove it down their throats daily
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:05 am to TigerVespamon
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The public school district asked him to stop and eventually suspended him in 2015
How sad and hollow of a person do you have to be to take it that far? The 2015 school board should be financially responsible.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:06 am to lsujunky
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Not a fricking chance in this world would I go back.
I'd go back...
For a week. Then walk out
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:13 am to TigerVespamon
Sets a precedent for activist Christian teachers in public schools. Call a lawyer if the local school board gets feisty re one's religious free speech.
Hell, the BLM-supporting NFL signed off as their players kneeled and gathered in prayer on prime time tv.
My Uncle Earnest, who used to "run hogs" in the wild for harvest said that he watched the hogs and that as long as the ground was covered with acorns, the hogs just gorged themselves. But when the acorns quit falling, the hogs began to look up {hogs are smart). Moral of story: "the hogs don't look up till the acorns quit falling".
Hell, the BLM-supporting NFL signed off as their players kneeled and gathered in prayer on prime time tv.
My Uncle Earnest, who used to "run hogs" in the wild for harvest said that he watched the hogs and that as long as the ground was covered with acorns, the hogs just gorged themselves. But when the acorns quit falling, the hogs began to look up {hogs are smart). Moral of story: "the hogs don't look up till the acorns quit falling".
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:15 am to TigerVespamon
This was the right outcome by the Supreme Court. As long as a coach isn't making players join him, I don't see how it runs counter to the Constitution. It's not like the players are inside a classroom where they can't leave. They are on a football field after a game and don't have to be involved if they don't want to be.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:20 am to HailToTheChiz
Go back, follow the SCOTUS decision to the T, and dare them to fire you again.
Going back qualified him for back pay as well as the school board having to pay 100% of the retirement from the time he was illegally fired. Daring them to do it again should allow a lawyer to take a slam dunk case on contingency, or pay from the previous case, to do it again and get him that much closer to retirement.
Going back qualified him for back pay as well as the school board having to pay 100% of the retirement from the time he was illegally fired. Daring them to do it again should allow a lawyer to take a slam dunk case on contingency, or pay from the previous case, to do it again and get him that much closer to retirement.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:29 am to TigerVespamon
Paid by the taxpayers
Don’t get me wrong, he deserves it but it’s a shame nothing happens to the politicians that cause these settlements that taxpayers must pay
Don’t get me wrong, he deserves it but it’s a shame nothing happens to the politicians that cause these settlements that taxpayers must pay
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:34 am to lsujunky
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Not a fricking chance in this world would I go back.
I’d fricking walk right back in there today.
With a fricking huge grin from ear to ear, whistling zip a dee doo dah out of my a-hole.
Posted on 3/22/23 at 8:37 am to lsujunky
He seems like a coach/teacher that really cares about being a positive influence on the kids he coaches/teaches. It might be worth it just to be back in the lives of those young men.
He also has a green light for continued prayer and providing his testimony to Jesus Christ through it, which is more important than anything else he could be doing.
He also has a green light for continued prayer and providing his testimony to Jesus Christ through it, which is more important than anything else he could be doing.
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