Legal Opinion · Dissent
Archdiocese of Washington v. Moersen
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 14, 2007No. 69 September Term, 2005Published
1Dissent
Dissenting Opinion by
HARRELL, Judge,
which RAKER and CATHELL, JJ., Join.
I respectfully dissent. The Majority opinion, in the process of minimizing the role played by Moersen as the organist for St. Catherine Labouré Parish (“the Parish”), as compared to more extensive musical ministry and other ecclesiastical positions examined by other courts, lost sight of the simple reality that because Moersen’s “primary duties consisted] of ... participation in religious ritual and worship, he ... should be considered ‘clergy.’ ” Rayburn v. Gen. Conf. of Seventh-Day Adventists, 772 F.2d 1164, 1169 (4th…
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