UPDATE: That Washington State Public HS Football Coach?! A Quitter, On His Team -- After One Game. Charming.

Many here will recall the astro-turfed case that made it to the Supremes. Many will also recall that the 5-4 conservative majority held that. . . public prayers for a whole team, at the 50-yard line, at the end of each public high school football game. . . did not create a coercive environment for public high school student athletes who wanted to play varsity football, but did not wish to be peer-pressured into public prayers.

The Supremes didn't say much about the impressionable kids, focusing instead on the aging coach's "right" to use a public high school athletic event as a platform, to -- in show-off fashion -- exhibit his purported religious views. [Justice Sotomayor's dissent is the better view here, BTW: ". . .A public school district is not required to permit such conduct; in fact, the Establishment Clause prohibits it from doing so. . . ."] In Thomas-speak, then, the rights of one aging x-tian coach should outweigh those of 50 or so impressionable youths.

Then he was so busy doing the for-cash far right speaking tour stops. . . he did not reapply for about two years, to coach anywhere. He was reinstated this summer at the Bremerton (WA) High School. . . and just quit -- after his first game.

Again -- forget the commit he made to his impressionable young athletes.

He walked. . . out. He wants to live out of state. And presumably go back to speechifying, for far more money -- for a few hours, one or two days a week.

Coaching it seems. . . is too much like. . . real work for him, now that he's tasted the far-right-allied think tank money -- for doing essentially nothing. Not quite the Liberty University "movie of the week" ending Justice Thomas had imagined.

Charming.

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