Then there isn't any argument.
All of the property of the Episcopalian Church in America, every church, rightfully belongs to the pro-sodomy TEC, and the American Anglicans should respectfully depart from that sinful church and leave all of the property and possessions behind, starting anew with their own property, just like their ancestors did when they politely left the Catholic Church and left all of that property which was unquestionably the rightful property of the Church of Rome and the Pope, behind, and went and built all new churches in England to replace the buildings and universities, etc., still belonging to the (putatively) sinful and evil Catholic leadership. After all, rules are rules, and property is property, and we can't be just siezing property from the legitimate owner, be it the TEC or Rome...
Sounds like the Episcopalians made a bad deal, and won't break bad Church law (like they DID break Roman Church law long ago) in order to TAKE property from the Devil. Oh well. I guess indulgences in 1500 are worse than sodomy.
I don't recall God destroying cities over simony though.
Not necessarily. *\;-)
The "ownership" rests in the Dennis Canon, passed ca. 1980 in order to staunch the tide of departing churches. Prior to the Canon the churches clearly owned their properties.
Questions have been raised about whether that Canon was properly passed; by canon law there were to be two votes on it and there is no apparently definitive record of the second. This has not been litigated yet, as far as I know -- at least there's no final resolution.
There are also situations (California, for example) where state law takes precedence and churches have left with property.
So there are cases where churches have left with, and cases where they have (for whatever reason) left without. Church ownership in TEC is not a study in black and white.