A former Washington state public high school football coach who lost his job after praying with his players at the end of games is asking the Supreme Court to affirm his right to kneel at the events. In a writ of certiorari filed with the High Court earlier this week, attorneys for former Bremerton School District (BSD) football coach Joe Kennedy told the Justices that Kennedy lost his job because of his praying and that two lower federal courts erred in not upholding his First Amendment rights. “Petitioner Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a football coach at a public high school because he knelt and said a quiet prayer by himself at midfield after the game ended,” the writ said. “After considering an interlocutory petition in which Kennedy sought review of the lower courts’ refusal to grant him a preliminary injunction, four members of this Court observed that ‘the …