During Trinity Church, Myrtle Beach\u2019s testimony, the defendant\u2019s attorney David Booth Beers asked the witness Frank Sloan repeatedly why they removed references to the national Church from their corporate documents.<\/p>\n
After Plaintiffs objected Judge Goodstein said, agreeing with the objection, that the questions asked \u201cgoes to justification of why the entities did what they did. My concern is more the structure of the government-are we pre 1900 or after, when was the incorporation, what were the By-Laws? There\u2019s been too much focus on the justification for why they did what they did. As it stands were not a hierarchical, state, we are for neutrality. The justification is interesting but not what I think should be the focus of this court.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Suzanne Schwank, testifying for the Parish Church of St. Helena\u2019s, Beaufort, brought a 1728 Prayer Book in which references to the royal family had been crossed out, a parish registry with an entry dating back to 1706 and parish vestry minutes dating to 1724. The Vestry minutes requested and empowered one Mr. John Kean to \u201cprocure a clergyman of the Episcopalian Church for the town of Beaufort SC\u201d\u009d in 1784 prior to the formation of either the Diocese of South Carolina or The Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n