Joe Kennedy, the assistant high school football coach from Washington State who won a victory at the U.S. Supreme Court after being fired for praying on the Supreme Court, says that God uses the “least likely” people to accomplish His purposes.
“I don’t know why God does what He does; none of us do,” Kennedy, an 18-year U.S. Marine veteran who coached the varsity football team at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Washington, told The Christian Post reporter and podcaster Ian M. Giatti in an interview as part of a live event for CP’s “Politics in the Pews” podcast and article series at Fellowship Church last week.
“And I was the least likely person that I thought God would ever want to do anything with.”
Kennedy was fired in 2015 for praying on the 50-yard line on the football field after games. Despite suffering seven losses in the lower courts, he was ultimately victorious in 2022 after the nation’s high court ruled 6-3 in Kennedy’s favor. The decision upheld the constitutional right of public school employees to engage in brief, personal, private prayer, effectively overturning the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman, which had established the three-prong “Lemon…
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