by tromping to the 50 yard line to pray.

opposite. Every Christian I have ever met always wants to tell me about it whether I want to hear it or not.

If they didn't tell me, how would I know they were Christian?? Maybe a sticker on their car? or some chachkies in their home?

I was walking in my neighborhood and a lady stopped her car to tell me about a "prayer throw" she and her friends were making. I asked what that meant....they pray for people while they are making it....I asked "does that really work?" Of course....she has never spoken to me since....What's up with that?

has always struck me as an obnoxiously superficial waste of God's time, maybe even borderline blasphemous - if you believe in God - and even if you don't, it's still obnoxious and superficial.

..and there are plenty of other christian based private schools that coach can go pray at.

It's high school football.

Pray that Putin doesn't cause a nuclear war.

It's a far cry from praying in a closet and shutting the door behind him, however.

A crowd joined him "spontaneously", and the coach called a State Legislator to participate in the gathering. Pete Williams said it was a "spectacle."

By his superiors on the school board.
He did it anyway.
Insubordination is a firing offense in EVERY company and government office.
The religious “Freedumb!” defense is a diversion.

right to practice one's religion amount to an attempt to establish a state religion.
The case will be very fact driven so if the facts aren't clear it should be remanded.
It's not obvious what he was praying for. It wasn't victory since the prayer occurred after the game.
9 judges from the 9th Circuit dissented in favor of the coach's claim? If that's true he will certainly win before this supreme court.
Good article. Scotusblog. I should have known.

(New York Times) "The Supreme Court ruled that Hialeah's ban on ritual animal sacrifice violated the religious freedom of the followers of an Afro-Cuban religion in which the sacrifice of animals plays a central role...All nine Justices agreed that the prohibition, enacted in 1987 by the City of Hialeah, violated the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion."

If you allow one ancient superstition in, why not have them all?

...then those Satan-worshipping coaches are about to have their day.

Many of our right wing brethren want to put public prayer and the Bible back in the schools.

They have no qualms about using the gov't to foist their own religious beliefs on the children in public schools without letting the parents decide how they want their children raised.

banning CRT, "don't say gay" legislation and eliminating certain textbooks. They believe parents should decide what their children are exposed to in the schools...so long as they approve of it.

invoked, questioning about religious belief won't happen. To a truly spiritual person, following spiritual beliefs is more important than seeking legal support. Jesus makes it crystal clear that prayer is a personal affair conducted in private. So why would a sincere Christian go to the courts to legally defy Jesus's instructions? Makes no sense. The courts have already given Christians time for silent prayer, in accordance with Jesus's mandate. When the courts have already supported Christian doctrine, why would a Christian want that verdict overturned.

“Erecting a wall between church and State is the only way to guarantee a free society.”
—— Thomas Jefferson

A lot of quotes attributed to Jefferson aren't things he said. This one is a lot closer than most, but let's go to the source to see what he really did say.

The phrase “separation of church and state” derives from a letter by President Jefferson in 1802 where he wrote: “Erecting the wall of separation between church and state…is absolutely essential in a free society.” The wellspring of American anti-establishment thinking, however, was Jefferson's successor, James Madison ...

What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

Matthew 6:5-8 King James Version

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.