Days after its Santa Fe ruling, the Supreme Court advised the Alabama federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling allowing students to pray openly at public high school commencement services. Couch fears the ruling undermines First Amendment rights. Rulings in the 1990s assured religious groups the same access as other groups to public school facilities. It's legalized censorship. He says the ACLU plans to get a court injunction to scrutinize Santa Fe's actions at football games this fall to assure the district obeys the court ruling.
Couch says that the district's legal fight was worth it.
This is not about winning or losing. The text of the Supreme Court's decision is available in regular HTML at Findlaw or as a PDF document at the court's official site .