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At least three Circuits have concluded the ministerial exception survives 
Smith. The D.C. Circuit first considered this question in EEOC v. Catholic 
University of America, 83 F.3d 455 (D.C.Cir.1996). The Fifth Circuit has also held 
that the ministerial exception to Title VII survives Smith. In Combs v. Central 
Texas Annual Conf. of United Methodist Church, 173 F.3d 343 (5th Cir.1999), 
The Eleventh Circuit agreed in Gellington v. Christian Methodist Episcopal 
Church, ("We agree with the Fifth and D.C. Circuits and hold that the ministerial 
exception created in McClure has not been overruled by the Supreme Court's 
decision in Smith)

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