Praying coach: I had to resign over retaliatory tactics after I won my lawsuit

Kennedy said in his resignation letter that it became “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.” He was able to help coach one game, but that seems to be all he will do for the immediate future. …

“We have come to learn of serious allegations of retaliation against coach Kennedy by the Bremerton School District,” Hiram Sasser, executive counsel at First Liberty Institute (FLI), said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “They’ve done everything they can to make him feel unwelcome.”

Sasser said the FLI was “going to investigate the situation to determine whether further legal action is necessary.”

[Initially, I read that Kennedy had resigned after the one game due to a family health emergency in another state. There’s no word yet on what retaliatory actions are being alleged, but we can probably bet that we’ll hear soon enough. — Ed]