10/12/2005
Players, prayer, and football coaches
No doubt some will see this as simply a continuation of "The Vast Atheist Wing Conspiracy" and lament ad nauseam about the declining state of America thanks to the same such militant atheists. It was however the right call. There was nothing about this decision and the reasons for it that attacked any religions. When the coach is being paid by the school, a government agency, they are a representative of the government, whether they like it or not it is fact. As such a representative, by initiating prayer, especially over the protests of players and parents, they are issuing a governmental order establishing a religion.
