Historians assessing the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts might need to write a whole book on its remarkable string of rulings defending religious liberty in the face of rising secularism. Another one came Monday in a 6-3 case upholding a high-school football coach’s right to pray privately on the field after games.
The school in Washington state punished Coach Joseph Kennedy “for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance,” as Justice Neil Gorsuch writes for the majority in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. “The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.” Can we get an Amen?
