If you’re a middle school basketball coach, you shouldn’t be praying with your students before a game. That’s coercive and illegal.
And if you take a picture of that prayer, you shouldn’t put it up on social media like Eric Stafford did with his team at Dillard Drive Middle School in Raleigh, North Carolina.
If you break the law for Jesus anyway, you definitely shouldn’t take a picture of that prayer.
Because of that blatant disregard of the law, Freedom From Religion Foundation attorney Patrick Elliott is asking the Wake County Public School System to step in and stop it.
Coach Stafford and Coach Davis represent the school when they are acting as team coaches. Therefore, they cannot lead their team in prayer and cannot organize, participate in, or advocate for team prayer either.
Read the full story at the Friendly Atheist Blog
