A Look At Ex-Coach's Amicus Brief In On-Field Prayer Case

By Ronald Katz (August 9, 2018, 2:03 PM EDT) -- On Aug. 1, 2018, retired Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden filed a friend-of- the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the certiorari petition of a high school football coach, Joseph Kennedy, who was prohibited by his school district from praying on the football field after games (Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District). Although the brief urged the court to reverse a decision of the Ninth Circuit affirming the prohibition, the brief inadvertently lays out the problems of mixing religion and sport at a public school....

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