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A secularist legal group is urging the University of South Carolina to take action against its women’s basketball coach over her comments about belief in God following her team’s strong performance in the NCAA Tournament this year.
Speaking to reporters after her University of South Carolina Gamecocks advanced into the Final Four for this year’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Sunday, Coach Dawn Staley reflected on “the devastating loss that we had last year.” She said it “pulled us back here with a totally different team,” adding, “If you don’t believe in God, something’s wrong with you.”
“I’m a believer because … He makes things come true,” she said. “When you’re at your worst, He’s at His best.”
These comments did not sit well with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based legal organization that advocates for a strict separation of church and state.
In a letter to University of South Carolina President Michael Amiridis Monday, FFRF staff attorney Christopher Line cited the remarks as an example of “Staley’s ongoing promotion of her personal religious beliefs and her denigration of non-Christians through the women’s basketball program.”
“Current and future non-Christian and nonreligious players should feel welcome and respected as part of the women’s basketball team, not be told by their coach that they are on a team that is representing Jesus and that ‘if you don’t believe in God, something is wrong with you,'” wrote Line.
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