Friend v. Cove Methodist Church, Inc.

(concurring specially)—I have signed and thus concur in the majority opinion. However, having signed and become a part of the majority, I feel impelled to support and supplement with some comment pertaining particularly to the dissent and to matters high-lighted therein.

First, the dissent is a reiteration, basically, of a thesis which, in the vernacular, might read: “Judges go home— Legislators are the most!” The thesis was rejected by the majority of the court, I think, as long ago as 1953 in Pierce v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Ass’n, 43 Wn. (2d) 162, 260 P. (2d) 765 (1953), and again…