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Attorney for Miscavige/RTC Lamont Jefferson. First day of preliminary injunction hearing. Transcribed excerpt from 0:38:32 to 0:42:55.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jVyUFa2ZAc
This video is also posted on the 'Mosey sues cult for harassment' thread: http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?32857-Mosey-sues-cult-for-harrassment/page36
So it won't be lost in that long thread, it's also posted here with a link to the main thread.
Excerpt from Miscavige/RTC attorney Lamont Jefferson, illustrating yet another application of Hubbard's "religion angle":
Your Honor, I am not a Scientologist, but I am a disciple of the first amendment, and that's really what's at issue in this case...
That Mr. Jeffrey wants... to take the deposition of Mr. Miscavige who is the Ecclesiastical leader of a world wide Church...
You honor, Texas law recognizers the ecclesiastical exemption [exception ?] doctrine which I believe clearly applies here, with respect to their request to take deposition, discovery, harass the leader of an International Church...
The court [another court in another case] said the constitution forbids the government from interfering with the right of hierarchical religious bodies to establish their own internal rules and regulations, and to create tribunals for [inaudible] of religious matters...
What Mr. Jeffrey wants to do, by this discovery, is to go beyond, behind, and test if... the Church's... activities [are] lawful...
The law does not allow that your Honor...
The law says civil court may not intrude in the Church's governance of religious or theological matters, such as theological controversies, Church discipline, ecclesiastical governance, or the [inaudible] to standards of morality.
The religion angle is about more than just taxation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jVyUFa2ZAc
This video is also posted on the 'Mosey sues cult for harassment' thread: http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?32857-Mosey-sues-cult-for-harrassment/page36
So it won't be lost in that long thread, it's also posted here with a link to the main thread.
Excerpt from Miscavige/RTC attorney Lamont Jefferson, illustrating yet another application of Hubbard's "religion angle":
Your Honor, I am not a Scientologist, but I am a disciple of the first amendment, and that's really what's at issue in this case...
That Mr. Jeffrey wants... to take the deposition of Mr. Miscavige who is the Ecclesiastical leader of a world wide Church...
You honor, Texas law recognizers the ecclesiastical exemption [exception ?] doctrine which I believe clearly applies here, with respect to their request to take deposition, discovery, harass the leader of an International Church...
The court [another court in another case] said the constitution forbids the government from interfering with the right of hierarchical religious bodies to establish their own internal rules and regulations, and to create tribunals for [inaudible] of religious matters...
What Mr. Jeffrey wants to do, by this discovery, is to go beyond, behind, and test if... the Church's... activities [are] lawful...
The law does not allow that your Honor...
The law says civil court may not intrude in the Church's governance of religious or theological matters, such as theological controversies, Church discipline, ecclesiastical governance, or the [inaudible] to standards of morality.
The religion angle is about more than just taxation.