{"id":1530289,"date":"2022-06-28T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530289"},"modified":"2022-06-28T08:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:34:28","slug":"it-is-just-incredible-to-know-that-i-did-nothing-wrong-joseph-kennedy-celebrates-scotus-win-for-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-is-just-incredible-to-know-that-i-did-nothing-wrong-joseph-kennedy-celebrates-scotus-win-for-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Is Just Incredible To Know That I Did Nothing Wrong\u2019: Joseph Kennedy Celebrates SCOTUS Win For Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-is-just-incredible-to-know-that-i-did-nothing-wrong-joseph-kennedy-celebrates-scotus-win-for-religious-freedom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Joseph Kennedy, the high school football coach whose prayer on the field led to a landmark case and a victory for religious freedom, celebrated after the verdict was reached, saying, \u201cIt is just incredible to know that I did nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-supreme-court-affirms-religious-liberty-rules-in-favor-of-public-high-school-football-coach-punished-for-praying-after-games\/\">explained<\/a> after the verdict on Monday:<\/p>\n<p><em>On Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/21-418_i425.pdf\">Kennedy v. Bremerton School District<\/a>\u00a0that Kennedy had his First Amendment rights violated after he was placed on administrative leave by the school district and banned from participating in the football program for praying on the field after games in view of students.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t even know how to put it into words,\u201d Kennedy told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10958965\/Incredible-know-did-wrong-Football-coach-fired-praying-wants-old-job-back.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> in an exclusive interview. \u201cThey should give me a day off to think about it and process it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is just incredible to know that I did nothing wrong. Everything I did was fine,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd that the First Amendment is fine and well for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First Liberty, which represented Kennedy, <a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/cases\/coachkennedy\/\">summed up<\/a> the case\u2019s history through the courts:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bremerton (WA) School District suspended, and later fired, Coach Kennedy over his silent, 15-second prayer. First Liberty Institute filed a lawsuit against the school district, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. A federal district court upheld Coach Kennedy\u2019s termination. On appeal, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that, because Coach Kennedy could be seen by students and fans engaging in religious expression, the school lawfully terminated his employment and his silent prayers were not protected by the Constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In January 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to review Coach Kennedy\u2019s case but the case has returned to the District Court to answer some of the questions raised by the Justices. Upon re-hearing, the District Court and then Ninth Circuit again sided with the school district setting up a return to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a commitment with God that I\u2019d give him thanks after every football game, win or lose,\u201d Kennedy recalled. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the way I started out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had some kids that wanted to join, and they asked, and of course it\u2019s a free country,\u201d he said. \u201cThey can do whatever they want. And that went on fine for eight years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen someone made a complaint, and they started an investigation,\u201d he noted. \u201cAnd the lawyers got involved from the school district and they wanted to completely remove all religious aspects from the public schools. So they fired me, and I\u2019ve just been fighting ever since to get back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really thought if someone just looked at the facts of the case and the way the Constitution was written, that they would have to rule in my favor,\u201d he opined. \u201cI was optimistic every step of the way, and I was surprised that the lower courts ruled against me \u2013 some of them so harshly. I was waiting for someone to get beyond whatever their bias was, and just look at the facts of the case. And rule accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think every American should have been totally 100 percent on my side. From just my perspective,\u201d he stated. \u201cThis is about the First Amendment. It has nothing to do with infringing on anybody else\u2019s. This is somebody exercising the freedom that is in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople feel the Constitution has been put aside, and they haven\u2019t had the freedom. And that\u2019s why they are so excited about this,\u201d he surmised.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy asserted he just wants to return to his old job, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s all I asked for, from the beginning. The only thing I asked for was to be a coach, and thank God after. So I\u2019m waiting for the school district and my lawyers to figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Kennedy, the high school football coach whose prayer on the field led to a landmark case and a victory for religious freedom, celebrated after the verdict was reached, saying, \u201cIt is just incredible to know that I did nothing wrong.\u201d The Daily Wire explained after the verdict on Monday: On Monday morning, the Supreme &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1530302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}