Rambo's article notes that «surprisingly, most of the state and federal courts
deciding judicial discipline cases based on extrajudicial speech have not addressed the constitutionality of the code provisions involved.»
In this class of cases, we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of
judicial authority, is that whenever the questions of
discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been
decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final and as binding on them in their application to the case before them.