SCOTUSblog reports:
SCOTUS sides with a high school football coach in a First Amendment case about prayer at the 50-yard-line. In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS says the public school district violated the coach's free speech and free exercise rights when it barred him from praying on the field after games.
Here is the opinion from Neil Gorsuch in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District: supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf. Sonia Sotomayor dissents, joined by Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
Great victory for freedom of speech. It would cover a high school coach kneeling to honor Black Lives Matter as well.
Kennedy won under both Free Exercise and Free Speech. But a coach engaging in similar secular speech (ther BLM example) would still win under the Free Speech Clause alone.
So, after the game is over Coach A has a 1A right to kneel at the 50-yard line to honor Black lives and Coach K has a right to kneel at the 50-yard line to thank God for a game with good sportsmanship and no serious injuries. First Amendment neutrality of speech.