‘Employees may engage in religious expression and exercise’
By Bob Unruh
Deion Sanders (Video screenshot)
First Liberty Institute, coming off the successful Supreme Court representation of Coach Joseph Kennedy, who was wrongly fired by a Washington school district for his post-game prayers on school football fields, has issued a correction to a boast by the Freedom from Religion Foundation about its crackdown on prayers at the University of Colorado.
The Supreme Court recently decided that Kennedy’s rights were being violated by a school ban on his prayers.
Now a similar dispute has erupted in Colorado, where its high-profile football coach, former NFL star Deion Sanders, has made no secret of his religious faith.
That prompted the FFRF to complain to the school that any religious expression by Sanders was “unconstitutional.” The school said an official met with Sanders to “explain when and how coaches may engage in religious expression,” and the FFRF then “celebrated with a press release announcing it had ‘coached’ Coach Sangers on the Constitution.”