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Show Al The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Thursday, May 13, 1999 Sex Case May Define Churches’ Responsibility THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Churches must be responsible for the actions of pastors who harm their parishioners, said the attorney for a man ap- pealing his sexual-abuse lawsuit against a popular former priest and the archdiocese of Denver. But defense lawyers on Wednesday warned judges against a decision theysaid would give the state a heavyhand in matters of faith, urging a federal archdiocese Aruling for Ayon would violate First Amendmentprotections by getting the courts “inextricably involvedin theological issues involving the relationship between an archbishopandhis pastor,” an attorney for the archdiocesesaid Gourley was enjoying his ten ure as a much-loved pastor at a Catholic church in northwest Denver when Ayon sued himin 1997, seeking $20million in dam- courtto reject John Dean Ayon’s appealof his lawsuit against the ages on the grounds Gourley sex- Rey. and 1984. Ayonis now 33 and a Marshall urley and the ually abused him between 1981 and attempted suicide.” He also claimed the archdiocesetried to cover up Gourley’s actions, and was negligent in his hiring and su- pervision. would violate religious freedom grantedin the First Amendment Martin Nussbaum, a lawyer for the archdiocese, argued that the relationship between a pastor and his church must be governed by religious motivation — thecalling to becomea priest — and not by the courts. Last July, U.S. pointed to a spectrum of religious groups — including Muslims Mormonsand Methodists — that blame whenpastors are guilty of sexual misconduct. The appeals court will have to decide on the First Amendment issue onlyif it accepts Seelen’s argument that the district court Nussbaum said the decision “will erred whenit ruled thatthe statute of limitations had run out Theissue of a church'sliability in molestation cases has been when Ayon sued Gourley, who was removed as a pastor by Denver Archbishop Senatelast month killeda bill designed to shield churches from the lawsuit, denies the abusealleehone filed a brief in the caselast year. applyto all of these churches.” prominent in Colorado, whose Charles Chaput in orderto fight District Court Judge Daniel B. Sparr di FACTORY DIRECT Ayon’s lawsuit. He said it was filed too manyyearsafter the alleged abuse and that government fas, Sectionals, Sleepers & More interference in the way the church archdiocese hires pastors ome Tene> Now Online Checkit out www.athomeinutah.com J HE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWDELHI, sion manifested in alcohol abuse He We Make it...We Sell it...and You Save Teams Rescue Climber Near Top of Everest yer in San Diego. yon claimed Gourley caused him severe and disabling depres- Nussbaum told the judges their Tuling could affect church-and- state relations nationwide. India — Teams of mountaineers carried a frost- bitter Ukrainian climber on a stretcher down vertical walls of ice and across gaping crev a daring midnight rescuej low the summit of Mount Everest. ‘The rescue Sunday night on Ev- erest’s north face in Chinese Tibet was reported late Tuesday by a U.S. team viasatellite phone and e-mail to its Internet Web site, MountainZone.com, based in Se attle. 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One unidentified climber of the three-man Ukrainian team was missing and presumed dead. He wouldbethe first personthis year to die on the world’s highest peak. About 150 people have been killed on Mount Everest since Sir Edmund Hilla nd Sherpa Tenzing Norgay becamethe first to reach the summit and live to tell about it, in 1953 About 20 mountain climbers and Nepalese Sherpa guides from several expeditions banded to- gether to lower theinjured Ukrai nian from about 1,000 feet below the summit of the 29,028-foot- high mountain The Ukrainians had sealed the mountain Saturday. But they became separated on their way down, All were climbing without bottled oxygen, used by most mountaineers for energy and to avoid hallucinations. Project of Porn Onthe Syllabus At Wesleyan U. 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