Woman Says Church Threatening To Make Sins Public

[Howard Wasserman]

This sounds like a situation in which the amorphous "Freedom of the Church" Doctrine might prevent liability--substantive law is reluctant to subject religious organizations to liability for carrying out their theological functions.


Howard M. Wasserman
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Subject: Woman Says Church Threatening To Make Sins Public

The list should have some fund with this one:

http://www.news4jax.com/news/18286355/detail.html#-

Before you say sue the church’s behind off, which may well be (part of) the right answer, remember that organizations, too, have 1st Amendment rights (NAACP v. Button dicta, Robertson v. Jaycees dicta, Hurley, Dale), and churches may have, if anything, more than other organizations.

David M. Wagner
Regent University School of Law