Religious groups petition Massachusetts Supreme Court

The Christian Science Monitor

A wide variety of religious organizations filed a brief asking the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to dismiss a case involving a dispute over the government of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. Thirteen of the organizations had filed a previous friend of the court brief in support of the Church in a suit against several former and present officers brought by Elizabeth Weaver of Glen Arbor, Michigan, and Roy Varner of Houston [Texas]. The latest brief was signed by five additional church groups, including the Massachusetts Council of Churches, the Baptist Joint Committee, and the American Jewish Congress. The religious organizations immediate argued that "to allow this case to proceed to trial threatens immediate and irreparable harm" to the Christian Science Church "and it threatens similar harm in the future to all of the Commonwealth's religious denominations."

Reprinted from The Christian Science Monitor, March 25, 1996.

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