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The Becket Fund protects the freedom of religious groups to formulate and transmit their religious messages -- and to structure their religious polities -- without government interference. This freedom is doubly protected by the First Amendment: the Free Speech Clause prohibits government interference with the membership or message of expressive associations, secular and religious alike; and the Religion Clauses prohibit government entanglement in the internal affairs of religious institutions. These principles apply not only to employment decisions, but to admissions decisions at seminaries and other religious schools, and to decisions about church membership, leadership, doctrine, and corporate structure.

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