Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging a 25-year-old rule against broadcasting a prayer before a high school football game, keeping the ruling in place.
The challenge was brought by a Tampa-based Christian school that wanted to broadcast a prayer before a 2015 state championship football game.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit had ruled in favor of the Florida High School Athletic Association, found that use of the loudspeaker by the Christian schools to engage in communal prayer before a state-organized football game would be government speech.
The Tampa school, Cambridge Christian School, wanted the Court to overturn its 2000 decision in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe. In that ruling, the Court said that allowing student-led, student-initiated prayer at games violated the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment.
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