Attorney with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonpartisan, interfaith public-interest law firm, dedicating to protecting the free expression of all religious traditions in public and private, and is is representing the Ben Gamla Charter Academy; author of The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War over Religion in America
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