Football Coach Declares Prayer Victory: ‘We Invited God Right Back Into Our Schools’
Joe Kennedy, the high school football coach who took his battle to pray at the 50-yard line all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, said it was the “right time” to resign from the position he spent years fighting to win back. Kennedy, who is set to release a book next month titled, “Average Joe: The Coach Joe Kennedy Story,” recently made headlines when he returned to the football field one year after scoring a landmark religious freedom victory.
But right after kneeling and praying on the field, Kennedy decided to step away from his position. “It just seemed like the right time,” he told CBN’s Faithwire, citing health issues in his wife’s family, among other deciding factors. “Also, it seemed like the right thing to do. I knew the school really didn’t want me there. They made it abundantly clear.”
Kennedy said he wanted to simply “end on a high note,” take the high road and “retire on my own terms instead of anybody else’s.” Regardless of Kennedy’s decision to stop working as a coach, he said he was elated to have the chance to kneel at the 50-yard line and pray at his first game back — a right he earned at the highest court in the land.
“It was the most amazing feeling,” he said. “I’ve had a lot of good days, I’ve had a lot of bad days, but that day was probably the most perfect day ever.” Kennedy added, “We invited God right back into our schools and we could do it legally. So, that was just an awesome, awesome evening I have no words except for, ‘Thanks to God for everything.'”
He said there weren’t any protestors, which he was grateful for, as he feared it would distract the players. On the flip side, the community reportedly showed up to support Kennedy, with three times as many people coalescing as at a typical game. Watch Kennedy explain why he resigned and what’s next.
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