In a message dated 1/26/2007 4:20:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will be the first to admit that I may have misread Jones v. Wolf, but “ neutral principles of law” is a rather capacious concept, and don’t forget Gonzalez v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila and the insistence there of the right of the Court to provide a remedy where there was “fraud, collusion, or arbitrariness” in the proceedings before the religious tribunal. Jones v. Wolf sets forth one means by which a state may constitutionally chose to resolve property disputes..it does not stand ofr a general proposition applicable to the ministerial exception or other aspects of ecclesial life.....case law has specifically held that the "arbitrariness" referred to in Gonzalez does not give a court the jurisdiction to interpret an ecclesiaastical organization's ecclesiastical process
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