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Praying HS football coach awarded almost $2 million, job back in settlement

Remember the Washington State high school assistant football coach who was fired for praying at midfield at the end of his team’s games?

As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court siding with coach Joe Kennedy in August (via a 6-3 vote), the Bremerton School District has agreed to pay him $1.75 million … and give him his job back.

In a March 17 announcement, the district’s board announced it had agreed to the settlement, all the while claiming in a not-so roundabout way that it had acted legally appropriately all along.

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The board’s announcement notwithstanding, the SCOTUS had said in its ruling that students “were not required to participate in Kennedy’s prayer sessions, and the prayers were not publicly broadcast.”

As noted by The College Fix back in August of 2016, Coach Kennedy “saw no reason” to comply with Bremerton High School’s demands that he stop praying. He never had a complaint about his post-game 30-second prayer at the 50-yard line in seven years, and students were joining him of their own free will.