It's Thursday, April 28, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

The Supreme Court of the United States became the ground for a very important set of arguments

on Monday.

Oral arguments were held in a Supreme Court case having to do with a former high school

football coach in Bremerton, Washington as he's filed suit against that school district

for infringing upon his own religious liberty, his own right to pray, by basically

terminating his employment as a high school football coach because at the end of games he went to the 50 yard line and prayed and he was often

joined by students and as it turned out by a good many others as well.

The school board saw this as a great offense, claimed that it was an unconstitutional establishment

of religious exercise, and thus took the action against the coach.

The coach, a former Marine, decided that he would eventually take action against the school system and he did so in the courts

And that landed before the Supreme Court of the United States on Monday

The arrival of this particular case at the Supreme Court was not uncomplicated, nor was it at

this point unexpected.

Coach Kennedy, as he is known, that would be Joseph Kennedy Kennedy the former coach for the

Bremerton Washington High School varsity and junior varsity football teams

had lost his case at the Ninth Circuit it had gone through the federal court

level and then it had gone to the

ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals. Some of you will know almost immediately

that the Ninth Circuit has been in recent decades infamously America's most liberal appellate circuit in the federal courts.

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