3rd Circuit: Faculty participation in student-initiated prayer violates Establishment Clause
- Alliance Defense Fund
- Apr 16, 2008
The Third Circuit panel’s 70 page ruling is here: Borden
Marcus Borden, the head football coach at East Brunswick High
School, would like to engage in the silent acts of bowing his head during his team’s pre-meal grace and taking knee with his team during a locker-room prayer. He brought suit seeking a declaratory judgment that the East Brunswick school District’s policy prohibiting faculty participation in student-initiated prayer was unconstitutionally overbroad and vague, and violated his federal and state constitutional rights to freedom of speech, academic freedom, freedom of association, and due process. Read the rest of the article here.
