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The following is a pre-recorded program.

Here's one in Washington, the state of Washington.

Joseph Kennedy, that's the name, sounds familiar,

but it's not that Kennedy. He's a Washington State High School football coach who lost his job.

And the reason he did, because he was leading students in midfield prayers after the game.

And he sued, and he's going to get $1.7 million and his job back.

It's the Bramerton School Board voted unanimously last week to accept this settlement,

which follows the U.S. Supreme Court split decision last June that the prayer groups that Kennedy had were protected by the

First Amendment. So here's the story. Kennedy had coached at Bremerton High School since 2008.

He began praying alone on the 60-yard line after the games and eventually students and players

joined him. And then he began giving talks with religious references.

I mean, it was like giving sermons.

And so what happened was the school suspended him in 2015, seven years later,

and then his contract wasn't renewed, and he never reapplied for the job

because he said, or he said, they said, don't bother.

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