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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Supreme Court: Ministerial Exception | PBS

Duration: 06:45
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1506
Broadcast Date: Oct. 7, 2011

"If anything is covered by separation of church and state, this is it," says lawyer Douglas Laycock, who argued for the Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School, and nearly 100 diverse religious groups filed briefs supporting a church's right to choose its own ministers.

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