Sports Illustrated tweet on Supreme Court case roils social media

Former high school football coach Joe Kennedy on taking his fight for prayer in schools to the Supreme Court after being fired for doing so.

As a Supreme Court case involving a former Washington high school football coach and religious liberty awaits its fate, Sports Illustrated came under fire Monday for a tweet about the situation.

The sports magazine tweeted its daily cover featuring former Bremerton High School Joseph Kennedy kneeling in front of the Supreme Court.

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Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy answers questions after his legal case, Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District, was argued before the Supreme Court April 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"SCOTUS will soon rule on the case of a public school football coach who wants to pray on-field after games," the tweet read. "@GregBishopSI on Joe Kennedy, the machine backing him and the expected result: a win for Kennedy and an erosion of a bedrock of American democracy."

Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-N.M., was among the Twitter users who took issue with the tweet.

"Sports Illustrated seems to be under the impression that coaches and players praying on the field spells the end of American democracy," Herrell wrote. "If that were true, American democracy would have been destroyed long before the legendary Jim Thorpe threw his first pigskin."

The congresswoman wasn’t the only one who responded to the tweet. Sen. Tom Cotton, R- Ark., and former NFL kicker Jay Feely were also among those who took issue with the opinion piece.

The Supreme Court will decide whether the school district properly suspended Kennedy from his job at Bremerton High School after he refused to stop