Why start a law firm for religious liberty? | Becket Law | BRI’s Constitutional Conversations
Why start a law firm that supports religious liberty? Learn from Mark Rienzi, President of Becket Law.
0:00 was there anything any kind of inciting incident that motivated mr. Hasson to start the fund I think mark would agree that he saw a shift in the culture and a shift in how aggressive people who don’t love freedom were being in trying to coerce people to do what they didn’t want to do and trying to limit that individual freedom mark you can probably talk about that
0:21 yeah I think Seamus saw that we were entering a time and this is 25 years ago now but entering a time in which there was a greater danger that people who have religious beliefs that maybe don’t oh we aren’t always the same thing as what their neighbors think would risk having a government trying to shut them out or keep them out of working or
0:41 raising families or sending their kids to school or being doctors or contributing in other ways because they had a minority belief and he thought it was important to have an organization that would stand up not for one particular faith group not for you know we’re Catholics and not Jews or Mormons and not Protestants but instead just for the protection of the Bill of Rights that every American has the right to
1:03 worship God or not worship God as he or she sees fit and that it’s not for the government to tell people what to do on that front