Bremerton

[brem-er-tuhn]

noun

1. a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.

Example Sentences

Bremerton, the court found that the establishment clause was not violated because the high school football coach at the center of the case was engaged in “quiet” private prayer after games, such that there was no “evidence … in this record” that players would feel any coercion to participate.

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Bremerton School District, in reality, Kennedy’s private, optional, unobtrusive team prayers were none of these things: He often made them surrounded by large crowds of students, some of whom felt compelled to join so as not to miss out on playing time, and the media circus Kennedy created became so disruptive that the team’s head coach quit after the season because he feared for his safety.

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Bremerton, the notorious “praying coach” case, writing: “As it often does, the Court repackaged and whitewashed facts to achieve a desired outcome.”

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Bremerton School District, the court treated a high school football coach as a private citizen when he prayed with players at midfield, brushing aside any establishment concerns by blithely asserting that “offense does not equate to coercion.”

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Bremerton, when the Supreme Court called those precedents into question.

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