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Despite plaintiff's assertion of a written docuмent, he has not produced a contract specifying an amount of money to be returned to him and has not pled a claim for breach of contract. He asks this court to examine the equities and find that the defendants have been wrongfully enriched by his donations to MHFM. The record reflects that plaintiff was not misled regarding MHFM's lack of affiliation with the recognized Order of St. Benedict and that he agreed with the defendants' view of traditional Catholicism. Plaintiff admitted that the Dimonds never required that he donate all his money to the monastery, yet he chose to make substantial donations to MHFM and never specified in writing the amount he sought upon leaving the monastery. His assertion now that he was misled as to the establishment of MHFM as a Benedictine community requires a examination of doctrinal issues that is prohibited by The First Amendment. As plaintiff has not raised a genuine issue of material fact to suggest that he was the victim of a fraudulent misrepresentation, the defendants have established that they are entitled to judgment as a matter of law on the equitable claims.