Coach Deion Sanders Should Be Free to Pray
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation accused NFL Hall of Famer and new University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders of forcing his Christian faith on student athletes.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman at a look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the |
| 0:03.8 | point. |
| 0:04.8 | Earlier this year, the Freedom from Religion Foundation accused NFL Hall of Famer and |
| 0:08.4 | new University of Colorado football coach, Deon Sanders, of forcing his Christian faith |
| 0:13.0 | on his student athletes. |
| 0:14.4 | Apparently, Sanders opens team meetings in prayer. |
| 0:17.2 | According to the activists, this amounts to, quote, school-sponsored proselytizing. |
| 0:21.5 | With the activists of misstice, the difference between expression and coercion. |
| 0:24.8 | As First Liberty Council Keisha Russell put it, Sanders does not lose his constitutional |
| 0:28.8 | right to free exercise of religion, simply because he's an employee at CU. |
| 0:33.1 | This is exactly what the Supreme Court ruled last year in a case similar to Deon's Kennedy |
| 0:37.1 | versus the Bremerton School District. |
| 0:38.9 | In that case, coach Joe Kennedy, a football coach at a public high school, was vindicated |
| 0:43.2 | against a school district that terminated his employment because he prayed before and |
| 0:46.9 | after football games. |
| 0:48.3 | While Sanders practices are no different, our founders knew that religion is indispensable |
| 0:53.1 | to a free and flourishing society. |
| 0:55.1 | The public institutions should not censor private religious practice. |
| 0:59.4 | To the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point. |
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