Religion & Law

Here's one, from the Ninth Circuit:

The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment provide that ?Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.? U.S. Const. amend. I. These clauses require a ?ministerial exception? to employment statutes if the statute?s application would interfere with a religious institution?s employment decisions concerning its ministers. . . . Because the ministerial exception is constitutionally compelled, it applies as a matter of law across statutes, both state and federal, that would interfere with the church-minister relationship. . . .