High school coach fired for on-field prayer wins $2M settlement

[DigitalDrifter]

This was the suit that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

A high school football coach who won a Supreme Court verdict protecting his right to pray on the field has reached a nearly $2 million settlement with the school district that placed him on administrative leave in 2015. The board of Bremerton School District in Washington state voted unanimously on Thursday to approve the $1,775,000 settlement payment to attorneys for former coach Joseph Kennedy (pictured left). Kennedy will also return as an assistant football coach for Bremerton High School for the 2023 season, receiving a stipend of $5,304 for the season, the district said in a statement.

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[Donald H]

This was the suit that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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This is the kind of victory the Christian churches need right now, at a time when the competition is coming from atheism and well as Islam, Buddhism, and other pagan cults!

 

[1srelluc]

Eight years for a 2M payout?

Seems way too light to me.

 

[Mac-7]

This was the suit that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Make the heathen officials who fired the coach pay the fine out of their own salary

 

[AMart]

This is the kind of victory the Christian churches need right now, at a time when the competition is coming from atheism and well as Islam, Buddhism, and other pagan cults!

LOSER

 

[SassyIrishLass]

This is the kind of victory the Christian churches need right now, at a time when the competition is coming from atheism and well as Islam, Buddhism, and other pagan cults!

Cripes you're annoying

 

[marvin martian]

This was the suit that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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There should be harsher penalties for civil rights violations, like we have harsher penalties for hate crimes. They're one and the same.

 

[Independentthinker]

This was the suit that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Our country was founded on God and prayers. It's in many of our cherished documents.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Eight years for a 2M payout?

Seems way too light to me.

The big question is what will the amount boil down to after taxes?

God bless you and the coach always!!!

Holly

 

[1srelluc]

The big question is what will the amount boil down to after taxes?

God bless you and the coach always!!!

Holly

There are no taxes....Lawyer fees are a different story.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

They should be glad it’s only 2 million. If he was a Muslim coach he would have blown up the school.

 

[d0gbreath]

There are no taxes....Lawyer fees are a different story.

Eight years of lawyering all the way to the Supreme court, probably won't leave anything left over, and may not actually be enough to pay them all.