The gatekeeper challenges you thus: "Are you a clergyman?" And those who fail to say flatly, "No," are not allowed to enter.
Horace Greeley once approached the gate at Girard College wearing his usual little white necktie, his spectacles and his beatific, innocent smile.
"You can't enter," said the grim Saint Peter.
"Why not?" was the astonished reply.
"You are a clergyman!"
"The hell I am!" said Horace.
"Excuse me—walk right in," said Saint Peter.
The heirs tried to break the will, basing their argument on that item concerning clergymen.
The Supreme Court upheld the will, finding nothing derogatory in it to the Christian religion or public policy.
Girard did not say, "Christian clergymen"—he was opposed to all formal religions.