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Church Mutual Insurance Company, America’s leading insurer of religious organizations, has asked a Texas court to issue a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to defend or indemnify Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, its founder, Robert Morris, and its independent elders against a $1 million defamation lawsuit filed by child-sex abuse survivor Cindy Clemishire.

The company filed the request in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas last month, arguing that it has disclaimed coverage for the church, Morris and other named defendants under Gateway’s primary insurance policies because Cindy Clemishire’s childhood sexual abuse by Morris first occurred in 1982.

Lawyers for the religious insurance giant argue that because it has only been coverin

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