'Tremendous Victory': Supreme Court Sides with Football Coach Who Was Fired for Praying

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : "This is a tremendous victory for Coach Kennedy and religious liberty for all Americans," said Kelly Shackelford, president and chief counsel for First Liberty.
55% : " The goal of courts, he added, should be to "faithfully reflec[t] the understanding of the Founding Fathers" in religious liberty cases.
51% : Gorsuch described the First Amendment as a "natural outgrowth of the framers' distrust of government attempts to regulate religion and suppress dissent."
50% : The amendment's language on religious liberty, he added, protects "not only the right to harbor religious beliefs inwardly" but also "the ability of those who hold religious beliefs of all kinds to live out their faiths in daily life through 'the performance of (or abstention from) physical acts.'
45% : "Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment.
44% : Conservatives frequently have criticized the test, saying it has been used to restrict religious liberty.
41% : In a landmark ruling for religious liberty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday officially overturned a 51-year-old legal precedent known as the "Lemon Test" while siding with a football coach who had been fired for praying.

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