How One Man’s Private Prayer Landed Him At SCOTUS

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Joe Kennedy, a Marine veteran and former high school football coach, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to share his journey to faith and recount how praying on the football field became the center of a years-long legal battle that resulted in a First Amendment victory at the Supreme Court.

You can find Kennedy's book "Average Joe: One Man's Faith and the Fight to Change a Nation" here. You can find information about the "Average Joe" movie here.

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0:00.0	You're going to do. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jershensky
0:21.2	Culture Editor here at the Federalist. As as always you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com
0:26.2	Follow us on X or Twitter depending on the day if I remember to say that at fDR LST
0:31.2	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and if you want to support our work you can head on over and subscribe at the premium version of our website as well.
0:39.0	We are joined today by somebody who made just a huge ripple effect around the country with a simple
0:46.7	act of prayer that would be Coach Joe Kennedy who's out with a new book it's called
0:50.9	Average Joe one man Man's Faith,
0:53.0	and the Fight Change a Nation.
0:55.3	It's also gonna be made into a movie soon as well.
0:58.0	Coach Kennedy, thanks for joining the show.
1:00.7	Absolutely, always great to talk to you. I mean just a remarkable story. A lot of people
1:06.3	probably know your name they're probably familiar with the case Kennedy v.
1:10.3	Bremerton School District over in Washington State and I thought before we dive into that coach it might be helpful to just start with a little bit of your background.
1:19.6	You've led a very interesting life if you could tell us just a little bit about you know how you ended up
1:24.8	coaching football at Bremerton that would be great yeah real easy background is you you know, that unwanted kid from, you know, from childbirth all the way through me growing up.
1:39.0	And so I decided to join the Marine Corps to get away from it all and become something.
1:44.0	And after I served for a few years, I got out of the Marine Corps,
1:47.1	got married to my childhood sweetheart, and she was working in the school district
1:52.4	and they wanted coaches so the next thing you know I'm working as a high school football coach and I made the commitment to
2:01.5	pray and that's what I did. It was something so simple as that. You know I was also going to ask you
2:07.6	you spent 18 years in the Marines if you could tell us a little bit about your service.
2:13.0	You know, again, you mentioned you joined
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