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Docket 21-145
Docket 21-145

Gordon College v. DeWeese-Boyd

This case asks whether the First Amendment's ministerial exception applies to professors at religious colleges who are required to integrate their faith into their teaching and scholarship, even if they do not teach religion classes.

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Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

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