State Agency Lacks Jurisdiction Over Priest's Discrimination Complaint

In Rweyemamu v. CT. Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, 2005 Conn. Super. LEXIS 2798 (Oct. 21, 2005), a Connecticut Superior Court held that the state human rights commission had no jurisdiction over a complaint by a Black African priest that he was not appointed pastor or parochial administrator of a particular Catholic church. The court found that the Free Exercise clause also precludes it from reviewing a discrimination complaint in this kind of purely ecclesiastical matter.