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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

"AVERAGE JOE" KENNEDY | Praying at the 50-Yard Line (Ep. 707)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Joe Kennedy to the show. He used to be an assistant football coach at a public high school in Bremerton, Washington. After games, he would pray at the 50-yard line by himself. When some coaches and players noticed him doing that, some of them decided to join him at the 50 in prayer after the games. The members of his school board said that they were worried that it would violate the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution, and they tried to force Coach Kennedy to stop praying. He refused. The school responded by not renewing his coaching contract (essentially firing him). He, rightfully, sued the school board, and that fight made its way all the way to the Supreme Court in 2022, where the court ruled in favor of Kennedy, voting 6-3, that the government cannot suppress an individual’s expression of religious observance, and if they do so then they are violating the rights to Free Exercise and Free Speech. The 2024 major motion picture “Average Joe” was made about Coach Kennedy and his struggle for religious liberty. In this interview, we discuss all of that in detail and much more. Let’s get into it…  Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.2

All right guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today. His name is Joe Kennedy.

1:00.4

So he used to be an assistant football coach at a public high school in Bremerton, Washington.

1:04.5

And after games, he decided at one point that he would start praying at the 50 yard line by himself.

1:09.9

And then some coaches, some of the players on his team, they noticed that he was doing that,

1:14.4

and some of them actually decided to join in with him and pray after the games.

1:17.9

And then some of the players from the other teams and coaches some of the other team would come in and pray after the games.

1:22.0

And this went on for years.

1:23.8

And no big deal, right?

1:25.4

I mean, we live in a free country.

1:26.8

We have freedom of religion, we have freedom of expression.

1:29.3

Well, apparently not in the ridiculous state of Washington, because the members of the school board did not like this at all, like surprise, surprise.

1:35.8

They said that they were worried that it would not only violate the establishment clause of the United States Constitution because of their moronic numbskoles.

1:43.4

They said that it was

1:44.2

potentially dangerous, that it was endangering students somehow to pray after a football game. So they

1:50.0

tried to force Coach Kennedy to stop praying. He refused as he should have. And the school responded

1:55.4

by not renewing his coaching contract at the end of that season. They essentially fired him as

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