Praying Football Coach Wins at Supreme Court

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court has been making waves with two recent religious liberty cases, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District and Carson v. Makin. Sarah and David delve into the Kennedy opinion, involving a high school football coach who was fired for praying on the field. The case overruled the Lemon test, used in First Amendment cases for decades, but there’s still much to be decided in the future. Plus: More on the political fallout from the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling.

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to Advisory Opinions on David French with Sarah Isger and we've got a dothr
0:25.0	huge Supreme Court case to talk about.
0:28.8	This time it is coach Kennedy, the praying football coach.
0:33.8	His decision was handed down less than an hour ago as we were recording this.
0:39.2	But never fear.
0:40.4	We have read the opinion.
0:42.0	We read everything before the opinion.
0:45.3	We have so many thoughts and we've got more thoughts on dobs and we're going to also
0:50.6	just we know there are other Supreme Court cases that have been decided.
0:55.8	We're tabling some of them for later.
0:58.3	In the midst of talking about some of the biggest cases in a generation.
1:03.5	We're going to focus on those up front.
1:05.6	Today's podcast, coach Kennedy and then a little bit more on dobs because quite frankly
1:14.5	a snap judgment and snap response to it shouldn't be our only response to dobs.
1:19.2	We're going to talk more about it.
1:21.3	Sarah, coach Kennedy decision.
1:24.0	Thinking about it and we'll just write up front say coach Kennedy won.
1:28.9	He prevailed in his claim that the the school violated his rights under the free exercise
1:34.4	clause when it prohibited him from offering a silent prayer at the 50 yard line after
1:39.2	football games.
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