This is a very misleading article and leaves out the (key) first part of his statement:
“[I]t is apparent that the reinstatement ordered by the Supreme Court will not be fully followed after a series of actions meant to diminish my role and single me out in what I can only believe is retaliation by the school district,” Kennedy wrote.
They’re welcome to try to sue for defamation if he’s lying, but I suspect he’ll end up winning a pretty penny in a lawsuit of his own.
You can compare what actually happened with what he said. From another article with more info on that:
A divided Supreme Court ultimately ruled that Kennedy had a right to pray under free speech and exercise clauses as long as he wasn’t coercing others to join him.
After the ruling, the district wrote a policy that allows coaches to pray while not actively supervising players if the coaches keep their distance from students when the prayers begin. After that, students can join if they choose.
“I can’t tell them to or not to,” Kennedy acknowledged last week. “If they want to join, cool. If they don’t, cool.”
No students did so at Friday’s game against the Mount Douglas Rams, from Victoria, B.C. A larger-than-normal crowd suggested Kennedy’s supporters showed up, but none stormed the field to join him in prayer, as happened at a 2015 homecoming game. A scattering of applause accompanied the coach’s kneeling at the 50-yard line.
Kennedy quit his full-time job at the Bremerton shipyard before moving to Florida. With his newfound celebrity, he has a promotional website, a book coming out in October and a movie about his life in the works. He speaks to political and religious groups, and says politicians including Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, have courted him for his endorsement.
Sure, there’s probably a lot of context missing from the posted article. However my main issue is if you’re going to report his statement then it’s a bit underhanded to cut out the main first part of it.
The Chino Valley policy went into effect when the new school year began in August, and days later CJ saw its impact when one of his trans friends, who is not out to his parents because of their deeply conservative Christian views, knocked on his door. According to CJ, his friend planned to die by suicide as a result of the new policy.
I hope every person who voted for this burns in hell.
This is actually common. My brother in law lost his state job when he enlisted in the National Guard. They claimed it was for another reason, but his issues with managing didn’t start until he announced he had enlisted. He sued, won and got his job back after boot camp. His first day back he turned in his 2 Weeks notice. For these cases it’s just proving the point and winning the right to go.out on their own terms.
The 10 year old got a hold of a loaded gun, presumably owned by his criminally neglectful parents, who were responsible for it's secured storage. Oh well, so sad, too bad, glad it happened to them, and not a school full of children.
Microsoft’s expensive foray into AI, this, Redfall/activision, and some of the Azure stuff I’ve heard make me wonder if we aren’t on the brink of hearing some kind of purge at the company with all the dumb decisions being made. It seems like there’s no part of this company doing anything useful.
This is such an obvious 1st amendment rights issue. Anyone can wear anything that is allowed on the property and you can’t even ban minors because drag doesn’t mean revealing clothing. It’s open and shut.
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