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NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Monday morning and a brand new work week for The World and Everything in It. Today is the 17th of July, 2022.

Good morning to you, I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. It’s time for Legal Docket.

We’re spending some time this summer talking to Christians who are defending their first-amendment rights.

First Liberty Institute is one of the religious-liberty law firms helping them, including this former firefighter.

HITTLE: My name is Ron Hittle, formerly fire chief of the city of Stockton for 24 years.

EICHER: Stockton, California. Hittle was chief the last six of those 24 years, right up to the time he was fired in 2011 for attending a Christian-affiliated leadership conference in 2010.

Ironically, it was Hittle’s deputy city manager who encouraged him to take leadership training. Hittle noticed an ad in a business magazine for the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. Turned out it was close by, so he signed up and placed the two-day event on the public city calendar.

Meaning, his supervisors received notice.

REICHARD: Hittle paid his own way and took the training along with three staff members. He says it was useful in several ways:

HITTLE: I think Jack Welch was probably one of the best speakers we had that night. He was the GE CEO, you know, and kind of brought them out of where they were...

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