Jefferson County Schools have agreed to stop opening high school football games with prayers broadcast over the loudspeakers. Read why here ➡️
Jefferson County Schools have agreed to stop opening high school football games with prayers broadcast over the public address loudspeakers, according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which complained about the practice at Gardendale High School and Pinson Valley High School.
Freedom From Religion Foundation staff attorney Chris Line sent a letter to Jefferson County School District calling it “inappropriate and unconstitutional” to have prayers over the public address system at public school football games. “Not only is the district endorsing these prayers by allotting time for them at the start of games, but it is also providing the prayer-giver with the public address system needed to impose these prayers on all students and community members at games,” Line wrote., attorney Samantha K. Smith of the Birmingham law firm of Bishop, Colvin, Johnson & Kent, LLC, responded to the request that no scheduled prayer happen at football games or other sponsored events.
“The Superintendent met with school principals and the administration will not allow prayer at school-sponsored events, including football games,” Smith wrote. “No public school event should ever be opened with a prayer,” said Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which is based in Madison, Wisconsin. “We’re pleased the school district has responded with alacrity to educate its staff and provide a lesson on why religious indoctrination and rituals may not be part of school events.
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