Tue Mar 21, 2023 – 6:02 pm EDT
BREMERTON, Washington (LifeSiteNews) –– After a years-long legal battle, Christian high school assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy has been reinstated to his position and awarded nearly $2 million after he was fired for leading players in prayer after each game.
“Mr. Kennedy will be an assistant football coach for Bremerton High School for the 2023 season,” the Bremerton School District in Washington said in a March 6 statement on its website. “Mr. Kennedy has completed human resources paperwork and we are awaiting the results of his fingerprinting and background check.”
Less than two weeks after the announcement of his rehiring, the district announced March 16 that it had accepted a $1.78 million settlement with Kennedy.
The reinstatement and financial settlement comes nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, and nearly eight years after his initial 2015 firing.
“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a personal religious observance, based on a mistaken view that it has a duty to suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors