FFRF Goes After Coach Who Prays with Football Team after Game

Those would-be do-gooders over at the Freedom from Religious Foundation (FFRF) are at it again. This time they’re picking on a Rutherford County Schools football coach in Tennessee who prayed with his team.

The Freedom from Religious Foundation filed a complaint against Rockville High School football coach, Rick Rice, for leading his players in a team prayer. The FFRF complaint called it a “constitutional violation.”

Rice led a prayer following an August 30 game in Franklin County, Tennessee.

The FFRF claimed a concerned parent reached out to them. They said in their complaint:

“Coach Rice’s conduct is unconstitutional because he endorses and promotes his religion when acting in his official capacity as a school district employee. When a public school employee acting in an official capacity organizes and advocates for team prayer, he effectively endorses religion on the District’s behalf.”

The principle of the school said he “addressed the issue” with coach Rice, who apologized for any misunderstanding. The school said the issue has since been resolved.

“I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful to other religions,” Rice said. “It was just something I got used to in Wayne County, and nothing was ever said.”

“It’s not okay today, but I’m old-school and guess I just forgot about it being such a sensitive issue in this day and time,” Rice added. “I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful.”

Opinion:

Thank goodness we’ve got that Freedom from Religious Foundation group protecting all of us from those “harmful” and “unconstitutional” prayers. Because you know…”Good, kind, thoughtful words are so dangerous and all.” Sarcasm level: 10+.

While Freedom from Religious Foundation, who files lawsuits in various locations around the country, and proclaims their mission is to protect the separation of church and state, thinks they are doing the will of the people — they couldn’t be more clueless. The residents in many of the regional areas where the FFRF files complaints –are of a completely different mindset.

This latest case is a prime example. Tennessee, which lies squarely in the heart of the Bible Belt, and may just be its buckle, is one of the most religious places in the country — if not the most.

The majority of people who live there want to pray. The players on football teams want to pray. Nashville-area television news reports interviewed players and people on the street, all of whom were in favor of prayer and saw nothing wrong with prayer at this football game. The only thing they saw wrong was the FFRF involving itself.

The FFRF just can’t seem to get the memo that people don’t want them sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong and telling them how to live. It’s kind of like a nosy neighbor telling you how to run your marriage. It would be like the state of New York suddenly trying to tell Utah how to run things in Provo.

But, the FFRF doesn’t understand this, doesn’t care or both. It comes down to the fact that the FFRF simply has an ax to grind. Under the guise of protecting the Constitution, always nitpicking a technicality to stir up turmoil, the actions of this nonprofit group seems to point to a different objective.

What that objective is — is blatantly obvious.

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