My issue is this: The coach cannot take his minor players anywhere without their parents’ permission, period. (okay, unless it’s an emergency) The rights of minors and church-state separation issues do not even have to come into play here.

Now I do not think he should be fired. But it needs to be made clear to him that he does not have the right to take minors anywhere behind their parents back. Not the mall, not a coffee shop, not their home, not their church.