Football Coach Joe Kennedy Scores Another Victory, Reveals Powerful Prayer Plans

A high school football coach who won his Supreme Court battle to pray on the 50-yard line last year said he’s excited and nervous to be reinstated to the position for which he spent years fighting. Joe Kennedy, locked for seven years in a volleying legal battle with the Bremerton School District in Washington state, secured a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District last June. The court found Kennedy’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was prevented from praying on the 50-yard line after games and ended up losing his job over the ordeal. Now, Kennedy is slated to be reinstated to his assistant coaching position this upcoming season. “I hardly believe it’s actually happening,” Kennedy told CBN’s Faithwire. “It’s been so long that I’ve been fighting so hard to get back there now. It’s really going to happen, and, man, I’m just so thankful.” Kennedy admitted he has some “nervousness” over his return to the field, especially considering the very public and legally transformative nature of his religious freedom case. But he believes he followed through on his pledge to pray after games and his quest to fight for his First Amendment rights. “I set out to just pray by myself and that’s what my covenant with God was at the very beginning … just give a prayer or thanks,” Kennedy said. When asked if he plans to pick back up on his prayers once he’s reinstated, the coach wasted no time in responding, “Absolutely.” “That’s what my plan was from the very beginning,” he said. “It was my covenant to, after every game, just take a knee and thank God, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to shake hands with the opposing team, talk to the coaches, shake their hand, and then I’m gonna turn around like I always have and take a knee and not worry about any of the repercussions.” Kennedy added, “I’m just gonna have that private moment with God and whatever happens happens.”

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