Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1969-01-27

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Mr. Justice Harlan, concurring. I am in entire agreement with the Court’s rejection of the “departure-from-doctrine” approach taken by the Georgia courts, as that approach necessarily requires the civilian courts to weigh the significance and the meaning of disputed religious doctrine. I do not, however, read the Court’s opinion to go further to hold that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids civilian courts from…

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