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Saturday, December 27, 2008

State of Virginia Endorses Stealing

The real AP headline:
Conservatives win court case in Va. church dispute

McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Nearly a dozen conservative church congregations in Virginia have won a lawsuit in which they sought to split from the U.S. Episcopal Church in a dispute over theology and homosexuality.

The final rulings came Friday from a Fairfax County judge who said the departing congregations are allowed under Virginia law to keep their church buildings and other property as they leave the Episcopal Church and realign under the authority of conservative Anglican bishops from Africa.

Several previous rulings had also gone in favor of the departing congregations. The diocese said it will appeal.

The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia notes:

The Fairfax County Circuit Court today affirmed that petitions filed by the CANA congregations do not include the endowment fund of The Falls Church (Episcopal) in Falls Church, Va. As a result, the endowment fund was not subject to the congregational vote and the following legal action taken by the CANA congregations seeking to take this property.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Fresh From ACN Confab: "And They Morph Again"

Just returned from the just-concluded meeting of the Anglican Communion Network, Katie Sherrod shares the following on her blog

“If only.”

These slightly petulant words seemed the leitmotif of the July 30-31 meeting of the Anglican Communion Network.

If only the Archbishop of Canterbury had spoken even one encouraging word about the Network, it would be so much bigger than it is now.

If only some of the Network’s biggest financial supporters weren’t tied up in their own legal battles as they tried to take property out of The Episcopal Church, the Network wouldn’t be facing financial “challenges.”

If only other bishops had spoken up in support of the Network bishops.

If only all the other splinter groups didn’t see themselves as the body into which all the other “orthodox” would come, the Network could have served as that body.

The glass is clearly half empty for the Network.

Read it all here.

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