Pep Squad Prayers Bring Debate Over Church-State to Gridiron
Forward, September, 2004 by Popper, Nathaniel
Popper, Nathaniel Forward 09-03-2004 As the University of Georgia prepares for the first football game of the season this Saturday, it has been the composition of the cheerleading squad rather than the starting quarterback that has generated the most controversy on campus. Georgia's head cheerleading coach, Marilou Braswell, was fired August 23, months after the public university reprimanded her for bringing Christian prayer into team events.
The complaint was brought by Jacyln Steele, a 21-year-old Jewish cheerleader who felt she had been discriminated against because of her reluctance to take part in the team's Christian gatherings. The final cause for Braswell's dismissal was a smaller-scale problem: Braswell used a team meeting to tell Steele's...
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