Gellington v. Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a constructive discharge claim based on a reassignment was barred by the ministerial exception
• holding that government interference with clergy employment matters violates the Free Exercise Clause
• holding that government interference with clergy employment matters violates the Free Exercise Clause
• barring Title VII claim by minister alleging constructive discharge and retaliation after being reassigned to church 800 miles away from his home with substantial reduction in salary
• \Investigation . . . into a church's employment of its clergy would almost always entail excessive government entangle-ment into the internal management of the church.\
• governmental “interference with a church’s ability to select and manage its own clergy” would violate both the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).