Gateway Church and Robert Morris have at least another 30 days to agree on an arbitrator in their ongoing legal dispute stemming from the disgraced pastor’s resignation over sexual abuse allegations — something an attorney for Morris admitted was unlikely to happen.
Morris and Gateway are each seeking something different in arbitration, a process in which a third party helps resolve a dispute between two or more groups. Morris wants a “Christian arbitrator,” who can follow rules from the International Christian Concern, a religious group whose website says helps support “persecuted Christians”. Meanwhile, the Southlake-based megachurch seeks to hire someone from the American Arbitration Association or a district judge.
At a court hearing Thursday, Morris agreed to take another 30 days to find a third party each side could agree on. But his attorney, William Mateja, added there likely wasn’t a “snowball’s chance in heck” they would find someone who satisfied both parties…