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Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15
These are two excellent points.
"One excellent Georgia lawyer gave me the following illustration.
1. If you own your home, and join Rotary, and then Rotary passes bylaws claiming that members' houses are held in trust for Rotary, and then you quit Rotary, do you have to sign over the title of your house to Rotary? Obviously not. Rotary can pass resolutions and bylaws until they're blue in the face, but that still doesn't give them ownership of your property because they had no original authority over your property to pass by bylaw to begin with. Likewise, if you (the parish) own your property, your membership in an organization (denomination) that's passed bylaws claiming ownership of your property is irrelevant. If you have the title, you paid for it, and signed no contract giving the denomination interest in your property, you should own it in the clear. The courts exist to enforce governmental law, not church law and not Rotary law.
2. I'm pretty sure that if the Diocese of Atlanta had title to the property, Alexander would have jumped to say so in his opening paragraph. He's actually put forward a weak case in his opening paragraph. Does he mean that the only thing he can point to, to claim ownership of the parish property, is a 1976 petition and a parish bylaw?
Drove by St. Andrew's this morning. The place was packed, with cars parked all over the grass. I was curious whether the sign still advertised the Episcopal Church; it did, with the logo still untouched.