Finishing The Race

Coach Joe Kennedy returned to the football field last week for the first time in eight years. After the game was over, he returned to the 50-yard line and knelt in prayer. 

The Marine veteran, who served in the First Gulf War, wasn’t about to surrender his fundamental rights at the schoolhouse door. When leftist bureaucrats fired him for praying on the field, he fought back.

According to his lawyers at the First Liberty Institute, Coach Kennedy’s case, which he had fought for seven years all the way to the Supreme Court, overturned 50 years of bad jurisprudence on what the First Amendment guarantee of religious liberty means. 

For 50 years, the court was on the wrong road. Ten years ago, a Supreme Court justice told me that he could not count five votes for religious liberty on the court. 

Because we elected a conservative president in 2016, the Supreme Court is very different from what it was ten years ago! It now has six votes in favor of religious liberty, as Coach Kennedy’s 2022 victory revealed.

But the word has not gotten out yet. In spite of everything Joe Biden and his secular left-wing allies are trying to do, our religious liberty is more secure today than at any time in the past 50 years because one Christian man, one David, “took a knee, made a stand” and prevailed against the left!

The left will continue to insist, “You can’t say this,” or “You can’t do that.” Sadly, many Christians will still self-censor. Principals will still pull students into their office and tell them, “You can’t recognize God in your speech.” 

That’s all wrong! But you must exercise your rights or the left will trample all over them.

Speaking to reporters Friday night, Kennedy said, “We finished the race and we did it together, and there’s nothing better than keeping the faith throughout that.”

With this Supreme Court, we can win on multiple fronts!