Utah Ct. App.: Mail-in vote violates incorporated denominational governing documents, break-away from UMC invalid

March 25, 2019by Josh S. Tatum in ecclesiastical abstention, Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause, governance, meetings, Methodist, neutral principles, parliamentary procedure, resolutions, schism, Utah

Religion Clause covers the decision in Laumalie Ma’oni’oni Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga v. Ma’afu, No. 2019 UT App. 41 (Utah Ct. App., March 21, 2019), here.

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