A Dallas County judge will decide next week whether her court has legal authority over a lawsuit against Gateway Church and former pastor Robert Morris over comments made about Morris’ sexual abuse of a child.
Ron Breaux, the attorney representing Gateway, began a hearing Friday by apologizing to abuse victim Cindy Clemishire, who sat at the front of the courtroom. Clemishire publicly revealed last year that Morris sexually abused her in the 1980s when she was 12 and he was 22.
But while “the abuse was horrific,” and “tragic,” Breaux said, “this case is not about that abuse.”…