Superintendent Aaron Leavell placed the longtime coach on administrative leave after he refused to stop his post-game prayers.

"Effective immediately, pending further District review of your conduct, you are placed on paid administrative leave from your position as an assistant coach with the Bremerton High School football program," Leavell wrote to the coach in an Oct. 28th letter. "You may not participate, in any capacity, in BHS football program activities."

Kennedy, who is a devout Christian, had been under investigation since September after someone complained about his post-game prayers at the 50-yard-line.

He was directed to cease and desist those prayers on Sept. 17th. He was also ordered to avoid kneeling, bowing his head or doing anything that could remotely be seen as religious.

"You violated those directives by engaging in overt, public and demonstrative religious conduct while still on duty as an assistant coach," Leavell wrote.

Leavell had offered to let the coach engage in "private prayer" following the football games—provided no child could see the coach petitioning the Almighty.

The district's accommodation for the coach's "hush-hush, clandestine" prayers would be allowed "so long as your brief, private religious exercise would not interfere with your performance of your continuing duties as an assistant coach."

It's unconscionable that a progressive school district would advocate shoving people back into a closet.

Coach Kennedy is represented by Liberty Institute, the nation's largest law firm dedicated to defending religious liberty. (Screengrab via Liberty Institute/Fox News)

Attorney Hiram Sasser said the school district is being hostile towards Christianity.

"They are sending the message to all people of faith that they are not welcome," Sasser told me.

Leavell noted in his letter to the coach that instead of meeting with him, he ignored their directives and prayed following the Oct. 23rd football game.

However, Sasser said that's not exactly accurate.

"We tried to meet with the school officials in-person but they refused to meet," the attorney told me. "We were only able to have a brief hour and a half call with their lawyer, and the result was a letter banning private prayer just a few hours before last Friday's game."

Liberty Institute has already laid the groundwork for a lawsuit against the school district—them of religious discrimination.

"It is unfortunate this school district is choosing litigation instead of a simple meeting," Sasser said.

It is also unfortunate that the Bremerton School District and Superintendent Aaron Leavell have shown such animosity towards a good and honorable Christian man like Joe Kennedy.

Reprinted with permission via Todd Starnes/American Dispatch-Fox News.

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