[sionnsar]

Secondly under the new provision even a lay person cannot seek to have the canons and constitutions interpreted by the secular courts without risking excommunication from the church.

I am not an attorney, but this looks like an end-run on the property issue also, at least on the issue that if ECUSA winds up outside the Anglican Communion, it is no longer the church defined by its consritution.

[newheart]

"...but this looks like an end-run on the property issue also"

I'm no attorney either, but I think you are right. ECUSA has slipped into full worldy mode when to get at the truth one merely has to 'follow the money' (or property in this case which is really the same thing).