(1) Whether the First Amendment ministerial exception provides religious organizations with immunity from employment discrimination suits, or merely a defense to liability after being subjected to the burdens and expense of litigation and judicial entanglement into purely religious matters.

(2) Does the ministerial exception, if not a complete bar to suit for alleged employment discrimination, nevertheless prohibit an employment discrimination suit from a professor who did not primarily teach religious texts but was required to integrate the Christian faith into her teaching and employment duties as a professor at a Christian institution.

Whether the First Amendment ministerial exception provides religious organizations with immunity from employment discrimination suits, or merely a defense to liability