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In case you missed it, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is at it again, but this time the group is going after 20 schools to abolish team chaplains from their football programs. Two schools on that list are Georgia and Georgia Tech.

The group singled out Georgia head coach Mark Richt, whose brother-in-law, Kevin Hynes, is the team chaplain. The organization accuses Richt of helping Hynes raise funds for the position as well as for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney is no stranger to this organization. In the spring of 2014, the FFRF accused him of promoting a culture that promotes Christianity and violates constitutional guidelines of the separation of church and state as stipulated in the Establishment Clause of the first amendment.