The American Cancer Society's Breast Cancer Awareness walk took place along Bay Street in Downtown Jacksonville Saturday morning.
Circuit Judge Marianne Aho ruled she couldn’t decide the case without joining “a doctrinal squabble involving the church’s biblical standards."she couldn’t decide the case without joining “a doctrinal squabble involving the church’s biblical standards,” a subject that generations of judges have refused to tackle.
“At bottom, resolution of this dispute would require this court enmesh itself into the decision of who should lead the church,” Aho wrote last week, adding that “this is something it cannot do.”of the suit last year but allowed the Weemses to update their claim after concluding she was barred from deciding the old suit because of a rule known as theThat doctrine says the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of religious freedom prevent civil courts from passing judgment on church rules or practices.
After deciding the new version of the defamation claim would still require her to violate court doctrine, Aho dismissed the Weemses’ suit “with prejudice,” meaning the question is settled and the case is done. Weems and his wife, Kerri, have been in court fights with Celebration since February 2022, when they sued over a decision by the church board to suspend him without pay from his lead role at the Jacksonville-based church, which numbered thousands of members and had a presence as far away as Europe and Africa.The couple’s original suit contended Weems had been blindsided after discovering “fraud on the church” involving a board member who spread false claims against Weems to protect himself.
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