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Supreme Court: Ministerial Exception

A church-state case weighs government entanglement in hiring and firing ministers.

10/07/2011 | Rating NR

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Supreme Court: Ministerial Exception

Clip: 10/7/2011 | 6m 45s

A church-state case weighs government entanglement in hiring and firing ministers.

"If anything is covered by separation of church and state, this is it," says lawyer Douglas Laycock, who argued for the Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School, and nearly 100 diverse religious groups filed briefs supporting a church's right to choose its own ministers.

10/07/2011 | Rating NR

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