VIRGINIA:TEC Bishop Lauds Legal Win but Faces Financial Uncertainty in Takeovers
VIRGINIA: TEC Bishop Lauds Legal Win but Faces Financial Uncertainty in Parish Takeovers
Is it a pyrrhic victory? Bishop forms "Dayspring" to absorb empty parishes. $3 million spent on legal fees
Bishop files motion with judge for prejudgment interest award.
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 6, 2012
Seven Episcopal congregations in Virginia, including two prominent, historic congregations that trace their roots to George Washington: Truro Church in Fairfax and The Falls Church, now face the fact that after a 6-year legal battle they must walk away from tens of millions of dollars worth of real estate - a loss that just might turn out to not be quite the victory roll for the liberal Episcopal diocese.
Jim Oakes, a spokesman for the seven churches, said the theological problems are very deep. "We didn't separate over a dispute about the color of the draperies," he said. "These are very serious issues." Indeed they are. Communion breaking.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy Bellows reversed a ruling he made in 2008 giving custody to the conservative congregations. The Virginia Supreme Court overturned that ruling in 2010 and ordered a new trial. At issue for orthodox Anglicans in that diocese was the denomination's dangerous and unbiblical drift into pansexuality, a drift that is now a rift that has torn the very fabric of the Anglican Communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Is it a pyrrhic victory? Bishop forms "Dayspring" to absorb empty parishes. $3 million spent on legal fees
Bishop files motion with judge for prejudgment interest award.
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 6, 2012
Seven Episcopal congregations in Virginia, including two prominent, historic congregations that trace their roots to George Washington: Truro Church in Fairfax and The Falls Church, now face the fact that after a 6-year legal battle they must walk away from tens of millions of dollars worth of real estate - a loss that just might turn out to not be quite the victory roll for the liberal Episcopal diocese.Jim Oakes, a spokesman for the seven churches, said the theological problems are very deep. "We didn't separate over a dispute about the color of the draperies," he said. "These are very serious issues." Indeed they are. Communion breaking.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy Bellows reversed a ruling he made in 2008 giving custody to the conservative congregations. The Virginia Supreme Court overturned that ruling in 2010 and ordered a new trial. At issue for orthodox Anglicans in that diocese was the denomination's dangerous and unbiblical drift into pansexuality, a drift that is now a rift that has torn the very fabric of the Anglican Communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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