47 Members of Congress Voice Support for Praying Wash. Football Coach

Dozens of members of Congress signed a letter addressed to a Washington high school defending its football coach, who partakes in a silent prayer following each football game.

The 47 members of Congress signed and sent the letter to Bremerton School District in Washington after district officials ordered high school football coach Joe Kennedy to stop praying on the 50-yard-line following each football game at Bermerton High School.

"The Establishment Clause exists to ensure that the government cannot affirmatively impose or elevate one religion over another. However, it does not prohibit the government from referencing religion altogether, nor does it require that government officials proactively scrub all references of religion from the public square," the letter, overseen by Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., heads of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, reads.

"Rather, the Establishment Clause ensures both that the government does not show preference to a certain religion, and that government does not take away an individual's ability to exercise religion," the letter adds.

The school district has reportedly announced that it will be reviewing Kennedy's employment at the school after the football coach continued to pray on the field's 50-yard-line despite demands to stop.

The coach has told local media outlets that he will continue to say the prayer because he "kind of made an agreement with my personal faith and with God that this was something that I was going to do, and I was going to give him the glory after every single game, and do it on the 50 [yard line]."