11TH Circuit Rules on State’s Refusal To Allow Prayer at Florida High School Football Title Game

By Gary Chester, Senior Writer Do public prayers and high school football mix? The U.S. Supreme Court responded affirmatively in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022), ruling that a school district had wrongly terminated a coach for conducting post-game prayers at the 50-yard line at a public high school. The 11th Circuit considered the same issue under different facts in Cambridge Christian Sch., Inc. v. Fla. High Sch. Ath. Ass’n, Inc., 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 22302 (11th Cir. 2024). In