Sports Illustrated claims prayer at sporting events erodes democracy

Putman County players, cheerleaders, students, and parents gather for prayer after the Friday night game (Sept 17, 2021), after the school board prohibited teachers and coaches from leading prayer after games.
Credit: Twitter capture

In a recent article (June 13, 2022), Sports Illustrated (SI) suggested that allowing players and coaches to pray prior to a game would lead to the erosion of democracy, Breitbart reports.

The magazine was discussing a court case before the Supreme Court involving Joe Kennedy who was fired as an assistant coach by Bremerton High, because he prayed with his players on the football field.

Breitbart explains:

“This Sports Illustrated article is little else but a long smear against Christians, conservatives, and white people in general, and coach Kennedy in particular, and on a vicious personal level, at that,” Breitbart News noted.

Conservatives and religious freedom activists took to social media to lambaste Sports Illustrated for such a disgraceful display of left-wing bias.

It’s expected that the Supreme Court will soon make a ruling on the case involving religious freedom.

READ: Sports Illustrated Blasted for Saying Prayer in Sports is ‘Eroding Democracy’

Breitbart also supplied a few tweet responses to SI’s article written by Greg Bishop:

Sports Illustrated seems to be under the impression that coaches and players praying on the field spells the end of American democracy.

If that were true, American democracy would have been destroyed long before the legendary Jim Thorpe threw his first pigskin. https://t.co/ph1LIg7Ct7
— Rep. Yvette Herrell (@RepHerrell) June 13, 2022

“The machine backing him” is the US Constitution. And it’s telling that Sports Illustrated thinks the Constitution is a threat to “democracy.” https://t.co/wsYROrQS1I
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 13, 2022

New: Radical leftists at @SINow attack prayer AFTER football game as being against "democracy"– which is reminder they want to ban Christianity. Sports Illustrated, btw, is owned by @AuthenticBrands, which also owns @reebox, @BrooksBrothers, @eddiebauer, and many other brands. https://t.co/odqbIf0ZGu
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) June 13, 2022

A couple of my favorites:

A reminder that @SInow defends coaches who take a knee to protest America, but castigate coaches who take a knee to pray. #Godless #Heathen #Evil https://t.co/0jC5HKwdEZ
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) June 13, 2022

Disappointing article Greg
I knelt and prayed after every game I played in the NFL. It was my way of publicly thanking god. With all the challenges in todays society we should encourage faith not discourage.
Freedom OF religion is very different than freedom FROM religion
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) June 13, 2022