Naperville School District 203 is reviewing the U.S. Supreme Court decision siding with a Washington State high school football coach who challenged a ban on kneeling and praying after games.
Back in 2015, a Naperville Central high school banned team prayers after a football coach was photographed kneeling and praying with players before a game.
The incident drew complaints from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which was also involved in the Washington case.
In a decision issued earlier this week, the Supreme Court upheld the Washington high school coach’s right to pray after games.
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The foundation’s Senior Counsel, Patrick Elliott, said the majority on the Supreme Court “dropped the ball” in that case, by deciding a group prayer on the 50-yard line was “private prayer” by the coach.
“This was really pitched as being a private, personal prayer,” Elliott said. “I don’t think — knowing the history and knowing the context — that was the case at all.”
Elliott spoke on the Foundation’s “Ask an Atheist” on YouTube.
As for Naperville, District 203 spokesman Alexander Mayster told the Naperville Sun that the policies regarding prayer “have always been, and will continue to be, guided by the law.”
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