The Supreme Court said separation of church and state does not prohibit public school employees from praying aloud on the job near students.
praying post-game at the 50-yard line, joined by his players.
"It elevates one individual’s interest in personal religious exercise, in the exact time and place of that individual’s choosing, over society’s interest in protecting the separation between church and state, eroding the protections for religious liberty for all," she wrote. "It was my covenant between me and God that after every game, win or lose, I'm going to do it right there on the field of battle," Kennedy previously told ABC News of his ritual, which he said typically lasted less than a minute.
Lower courts had sided with the school district. A Supreme Court reversal in favor of Kennedy could soon expand the ability of government employees nationwide to practice their faiths more openly while on the job, legal experts say. At the same time, the court has ruled that free speech rights don't end at the schoolhouse gate and that religion need not be entirely expunged from public schools.
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