Free-Range Religion in American Public Schools.

Three days after burying the right to abortion, his six conservative justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, against the advice of their three progressive colleagues, invalidated the dismissal of Joseph Kennedy.

This American football coach who had supervised the Bremerton high school teams for seven years, near Seattle (northwest), had been fired for prayers on the ground.

"A government entity wanted to punish an individual for a brief, quiet, and personal religious practice," "the Constitution neither mandates nor condones this kind of discrimination," Judge Neil Gorsuch wrote on their behalf.

Battle of Amendments

After each game, the coach had taken to kneeling in prayer in the middle of the field, sometimes joined by his players.

He sometimes led locker room prayers before or after games.

In 2015, school authorities asked him to abstain, citing a section of the Constitution's First Amendment that prohibits the state, and its employees, from encouraging the "establishment" of a religion. , that is to say, to finance it or to promote its practice.

As he refused, they had not renewed his contract.

He then took legal action, relying on another provision of the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of religion and expression.

These two clauses are regularly the subject of disputes and the Supreme Court had until recently held the crest line.

But its conservative majority, solidified by Donald Trump, now tips the balance in favor of religious circles.

In May, she felt that Boston City Hall should let a Christian group display its flag on City Hall.

Last week, she ruled that the state of Maine could not exclude denominational schools from a public aid scheme.

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