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We have with us today Katie Geary. She is a manager and podcaster at the Beckett Fund for

Religious Liberty. She is here to discuss the findings of this year's Religious

Freedom Index, which just came out. Welcome, Katie. Thank you so much for having me, Mark.

Very excited to be here today. You know, I've had someone from Beckett on the show before

Luke came on and joined us, but why don't you

just tell our listeners again, what exactly does Beckett law do? Sure. The Beckett Fund for

Religious Liberty is a nonprofit public interest law firm that defends religious liberty. So the

First Amendment right to religious

freedom. That's all we do. We've done it for over 20 years. And we protect religious liberty for

people of all faiths. We like to say from A to Z, from Anglican to Zero-H--hmm. And you take a lot of court cases.

Is it primarily legal work?

Yes.

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