Joe Kennedy resigned after just one game back on the field for Bremerton High School. The assistant high school football coach lost his job during a controversy over his public post-game prayers.
The Bremerton School Board accepted a nearly $2 million settlement with Joe Kennedy, who was fired for praying on the field. Kennedy is also being reinstated as a high school football coach.Kennedy was not joined by any athletes or others on the nearly empty field. There was scattered applause from the modest crowd at Memorial Stadium.
"Knowing that everybody’s expecting me to go do this kind of gives me a lot of angst in my stomach," Kennedy said before the game. "People are going to freak out that I’m bringing God back into public schools."' Kennedy’s fight to get his job back quickly became a cultural touchstone, pitting the religious liberties of government employees against longstanding principles protecting students from religious coercion.
"He’s like, ‘I want you to be on my faith advisory board.’ And I’m like, ‘Let me get back to you on that,’" Kennedy recalled. "And he just invited me to Iowa and he calls me and he says, ‘Hey, I really need to know, are you in my camp or not?’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m sorry. My loyalty is to Trump.’"Kennedy, 54, is grappling with whether football still fits into his life.
He led players in catching and tackling drills. He stuck a hand in his pocket and retrieved folded practice plans. Jogging past a player in line for warm-ups, Kennedy threw a playful block, knocking the student back a yard.
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