I would love to see your media coverage cites as to how no students felt coerced or pressured into participating, since you feel the local media is incorrect or biased.
To be fair, the article you posted didn't indicate that any student felt coerced or pressured. In fact, the only quote I saw from a student was this:
Here’s how a former player at Bremerton High School described that homecoming game in a brief to the court:
“To this day, I don’t remember who we played or if we even won. … All I remember is the aftermath of that game” in which there were “over 500 people storm[ing] the football field … from both sides, hopping the fences and rushing to the field to be close to Kennedy before he started his prayer.”
Maybe some of those 500 people storming the field to be with him were coerced or pressured, but I didn't see that reported. Do you know if there were students who actually complained, or was the concern that they just felt bad or compelled and didn't say anything?
I'm entirely ignorant about this guy, and I'm open to the idea that he was wrong, misguided, or even malicious, but to me it so far looks a little bit like when the Supreme Court rejected a case a couple years ago where a student complained about having to fill in the missing parts of the
shahada as part of a class that discussed Islam. The student complained that filling in the blanks of the conversion prayer was being forced to perform an Islamic rite. That was a silly lawsuit, as is the complaint that about this guy praying ... especially if there weren't any students who were bothered enough to actually say something.
