An Illinois Appellate Court declined to revive a minister’s defamation lawsuit against the church group where he was affiliated, relying on a doctrine that intends to keep matters of church governance out of civil courtrooms.The 4th District Appellate Court affirmed 11th Judicial Circuit Judge Paul G. Lawrence’s decision to dismiss Rev. Charles Orr’s case in McLean County against the 4th Episcopal District African Methodist Episcopal Church and a few of its employees based on the ecclesiastical abstention …