The court properly determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over these causes of action. Plaintiff was a pastoral associate and chaplain whose primary function served the spiritual and pastoral mission of the church. Interference with this mission would violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, under the "ministerial exception" to employment discrimination claims (Equal Empl. Opportunity Commn. v Catholic Univ. of Am.,
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