Coach resigns after high school bans pregame prayer

[ABoselli]

Would you feel the same way if he wanted to lead them in a Muslim prayer? Or Buddhist? or Jewish?

That's the sticky part to this whole thing. It's not just prayer - it's Christian prayer. And if it is one religion prayer, that's recognition of a religion by the state (he is an agent of the state when he is a school employee) and that's unconstitutional. Even in Texas and New Jersey.

There's plenty of time to pray on one's own time. Hell, pray all the way from home to school in the morning. Pray while you're taking a piss. Pray while you walk during the day. Pray during the car ride home. Pray over your dinner. Pray before you go to sleep. Pray in church on Sunday. Why does he have to pick that time and place? Because at the end of the day, it's not about the prayer - it's about him and what HE wants.

Why people feel that they have to shoe-horn their prayer sessions into everyone else's life is beyond me.