With no explanation, chose the best option from "A", "B", "C" or "D". of the elements of the offense involve review of church doctrine. The statute is based on legislative judgments about the power imbalance inherent in the clergy-counseling relationship that negates true consent and does not incorporate church doctrine. The First Amendment requires that civil courts abstain from resolving church disputes that would necessitate an adjudication of controversies over religious doctrine. Serbian E. Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich, 426 U.S. 696, 708-09, 96 S.Ct. 2372, 49 L.Ed.2d 151 (1976) (stating that civil courts must defer to “the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical tribunal within a church of hierarchical polity”); Presbyterian Church v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Mem’l Presbyterian Church, 393 U.S. 440, 449-50, 89 S.Ct. 601, 21 L.Ed.2d 658 (1969) (<HOLDING>). But civil courts are not required to abstain

A: holding that a church was entitled to employ only members of its faith
B: holding that appellate court could not determine whether trial court abused its discretion in denying relators motion to compel the other party to produce documents because it could only speculate whether there was evidence to support the trial courts denial
C: holding that civil courts could not determine whether the general church departed from its doctrine
D: holding that members of a church congregation lacked sufficient interest to support intervention in an action by the church itself challenging the designation of the church as a landmark
C.