“Coach Kennedy’s family health situation is very serious, and he and his family are in our thoughts and prayers,” Sasser told The Daily Signal. Kennedy and his wife, Denise, currently reside in Florida and have been caring for Kennedy’s aging father-in-law. Kennedy did not say if there was any tension between himself and anyone else at the school upon his return, but did tell the press he hoped to feel “more embraced this coming week now that this part’s over.”Īsked about his future plans, Kennedy said, “I’m going to do whatever God tells me to do,” noting that he has children and grandchildren who live in Bremerton. “I was doing exactly what I was supposed to do tonight,” Kennedy said after the game, when The Daily Signal asked him why he was often separated from the players and coaches. Throughout Friday night’s game, Kennedy could be seen standing by himself away from the other coaches and players. “We’d like to do-I don’t know-maybe some ministry or something.” “We’ll make some decisions of what’s next in our life, because obviously it’s not going to be football forever,” Kennedy told the AP. Prior to his first game back, Kennedy indicated in an interview with The Associated Press that he was not sure what the future held for him and his wife. tlokZxhywB- Virginia Allen September 2, 2023 ?After Bremerton High School won tonight, coach Kennedy walked to the center of the field and took a knee in silence prayer. In 2022, in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed Kennedy’s right to take a knee in silent prayer in view of the public after high school football games.
The coach, along with First Liberty Institute, filed a lawsuit against the school and the case rose to the Supreme Court. Kennedy lost his assistant football coaching job at Bremerton High School, about 30 miles west of Seattle, in 2015 after he refused to break a covenant he made with God to take a knee in prayer at the 50-yard line after football games, a practice of Kennedy’s since he began coaching at the school in 2008. I feel it is in everyone’s best interest I step back from coaching.” The coach added: “Bremerton’s football coaches, players, and parents have been such a blessing.
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In his resignation letter, Kennedy called it “apparent” that his “reinstatement ordered by the Supreme Court will not be fully followed after a series of actions meant to diminish my role and single me out in what I can only believe is retaliation by the school district.” Kennedy’s resignation, and it is pending board approval at tomorrow’s regularly scheduled meeting.”
The Bremerton School District confirmed Kennedy’s resignation on its website Wednesday, stating, “The District has received Mr. “They’ve done everything they can to make him feel unwelcome,” Sasser said, adding that First Liberty Institute, the legal organization that represented Kennedy throughout his legal battle, is “going to investigate the situation to determine whether further legal action is necessary.” “We have come to learn of serious allegations of retaliation against coach Kennedy by the Bremerton School District,” Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel at First Liberty Institute, said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. After a Supreme Court victory and being reinstated to his football coaching position, Joe Kennedy has submitted a letter of resignation to the Bremerton School District in Washington state.
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