High school assistant football coach Joe Kennedy chose to pray after a game in 2015. In the process, he destroyed America’s democracy forever.
This is the warning from Sports Illustrated, the once illustrious sports magazine/swimsuit model display that has spent the past few years cutting its staff. Apparently, the best way to save a dying sports magazine is to discuss Supreme Court jurisprudence that is only tangentially related to sports.
Conveniently, senior writer Greg Bishop
managed
to solve the entire conflict. According to Bishop and his quoted “experts,” the people who think that Kennedy’s school district was right to force him out of his role are the “one side” that “uses facts.” The other side, meanwhile, is the side of the “white Christian nationalists” whom “scholars agree” are irredeemably racist and want to destroy the country.
Those evil racists are the side that Kennedy represents, the former sports magazine informs us. Kennedy had been praying after games for seven years with nary a complaint. In fact, the district only
noticed
after an opposing coach said that “it was pretty cool” the district allowed it. But everyone knows you are not allowed to be religious in public if public schools are involved. If you try to mind your own business and pray in public, you are destroying the country.
Luckily, there is nothing important going on in the sports world, so this bit of “analysis” can be the Sports Illustrated cover story. After all, this is the end of America’s democracy. Who knows what will happen to this country if religious people are allowed to work for the government?
