In a 6-3 vote June 27, the Supreme Court ruled that a former high school football coach had the right to pray on the football field after games because his prayers were private speech and did not represent the public school’s endorsement of religion.
Supreme Court sides with coach in public school prayer case
John Garvey: Separation and neutrality
“The point of the establishment clause is not to push religion off into a corner. It’s to let us make up our own minds.”
Supreme Court lets ruling stand preventing Ten Commandments display
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal about an order to remove a Ten Commandments display outside City Hall in Bloomfield, New Mexico.