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Former football coach Joe Kennedy said a Sports Illustrated social media post that slammed him was just out for “a response.”
Sports Illustrated posted a tweet on Monday saying the coach was expected to win his Supreme Court case after being fired for praying on the field after football games in 2015. The tweet called that ruling “an erosion of a bedrock of American democracy.”
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Kennedy, who used to coach for Bremerton High School in Washington, said that while the tweet does not seem to support his choice to pray on the field after games, he did appreciate that Sports Illustrated assumes he will win.
“I do like that part, and I’ve been waiting every day,” Kennedy said.
The coach told Fox & Friends that he felt the article was written fairly and that the writer, Greg Bishop, did an “awesome job.”
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“After meeting with Greg, the writer of it, [he’s a] terrific guy, and I think he did an awesome job, like you said, of telling the story,” Kennedy said. “I do not know if it’s [the] editors, but somebody, boy, they sure wanted somebody to get a response, and I think they did.”
Kennedy’s lawyer, Jeremy Dys, noted that a ruling in the football coach’s favor would mean the opposite of an erosion of democracy.
“It’s going to firm up the support for religious freedom and freedom in general in this country that’s found in our constitution,” Dys said, noting that a coach’s ability to pray after a game “shouldn’t be threatening to democracy whatsoever.”
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The Supreme Court announced in January it would hear Kennedy’s case.
Kennedy expects a ruling any day.
“Maybe tomorrow, maybe Monday,” the former coach said. “Keep your fingers crossed, and Heaven forbid if you said a prayer.”
