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Someone who gets it — to his horror
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Back in May I wrote about Democrats who were complaining about the Roman Catholic Church demanding that Catholic lawmakers actually show the backbone to support positions of the church they claim to be teaching the truth.
Now, I come across this (old) story. The implications of this case are astounding. The title says it all: “Can Judge Order Changes in Church’s Membership?” According to the Constitution, the answer is a resounding “No!” the content, intent, or purposes of the California Corporations Code notwithstanding. I would imagine that the California state Constitution has a similar provision.
And at least one person gets the implications here:
“This is not a religious issue,” the attorney for the dissenters said. “If you follow their argument that the court can never get involved, then the question becomes: what’s to prevent any church board from kicking out anyone they disagree with?”
The answer from a viewpoint of what happens in this life? Again, according to our Constitution, absolutely nothing. They can add or remove members at whim for any reason or no reason.
Why? Because our Constitution recognizes that there are some areas into which government may never rightly inject itself. Religion is one of them.
MickC @ July 12, 2004