Stream of Conscience: Becket's Religious Liberty Podcast

About Stream of Conscience: Becket's Religious Liberty Podcast

In Season 2 of Stream of Conscience, we dive deeper into religious liberty to explore its two major components, the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. What did the framers of the Constitution mean when they forbade the “establishment” of religion? Who gets to decide what “free exercise” of religion includes? What’s the difference between the two clauses, and how do we argue cases arising under them? Season 2 also introduces cases that are not strictly religious liberty cases. We’ll talk about how other fundamental freedoms, like the freedom of speech and the right to property, intersect with religious liberty, and why it’s so important to understand these connections as we defend our freedoms.

Publisher

Becket: Religious Liberty for All

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Mar 2018

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 25 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Supreme Court Confronts Religious Discrimination: St. Mary v. Roy Explained

   Director of Communications Ryan Colby interviews attorneys Nick Reaves and Amanda Dixon about the Supreme Court case St. Mary v. Roy and its implications for religious freedom and parental choice.

2. 

   18 Nov 2025

   Why These Parents Took Their School Board to the Supreme Court

   What if your child’s school introduced storybooks promoting one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality—and refused to let you opt out? That’s what happened in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the school board mandated storybooks about topics like gender transitioning, Pride parades, and pronoun preferences for kids starting in pre-K. A diverse group of religious parents took the school board all the way to the Supreme Court—and won. In this episode of Becket’s Stream of Conscience podcast, attorney Eric Baxter interviews parents Chris and Melissa Persak and Jeff and Svitlana Roman on their journey to the Court and what this victory means for parental rights, religious freedom, and public education nationwide.

3. 

   17 Jun 2022

   Free to Foster

   In 2018, heroic foster care mothers had to give up their life’s work when the City of Philadelphia forced a 200-year-old Catholic foster care agency to close because of its religious beliefs. This is the story of how Sharonell Fulton, Toni Simms-Busch, and their foster care agency fought for their right to serve vulnerable children and won—unanimously—at the Supreme Court.

Inside a recent episode

The Supreme Court Confronts Religious Discrimination: St. Mary v. Roy Explained

Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And Amanda, if you want to give us just an overview of what we are arguing in our briefs, that'd be great. Sure. So this case involves several different legal issues. The first is that the court has in recent years decided a series of cases about religious education and state funding. […]

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