[Intolerant in NJ]

... which pits the right to free speech against the freedom from official establishment of a religion...uh, actually there's a second phrase to that part of the first amendment which lots of people including these judges seem to overlook - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free expression thereof..." - if one is stupid enough to actually believe that a coach praying with his team is tantamount to Congress making a law, one should be consistent in one's stupidity and believe that said law should not prohibit the coach from praying with his team......

[Kirkwood]

It isn’t Congress making a law forbidding the coach from praying, so the school can get away with this crap.

[SoldierDad]

uh, actually there's a second phrase to that part of the first amendment which lots of people including these judges seem to overlook - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free expression thereof..."

The First Amendment actually states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exersize thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech . . ."

In other words, the First Amendment probits the Congress from interfering with the establishment of any recognized religion, and cannot prevent people from exersizing their religious beliefs. Unfortunately, thanks to the liberal idiots in this country, the First Amendment has been bastardized by the liberal idiotic judges into something they can use against people who believe in God and Christ.