[sionnsar]

FYI..have you seen this? Heard anything about it? Would seem to benefit the CT TEC parishes attempting to leave the diocese...in effect it tears up the “Dennis Cannon”

You're right. It could possibly end the Dennis Canon in CT -- if there are any TEC churches still looking to leave.

Although we have a more independent structure, this could affect my province too -- it its arbitrary sizing of the Vestry.


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[PAR35]

My understanding is that it targets only the Roman church - one of several reasons that it is clearly unconstitutional.

On the other hand, even if it were changed to apply more broadly, the corporate board could be larger or smaller than the vestry (so long as it fell within the 7 to 13 range.) That being said, it appears that the authority given to the board is in many cases more properly restricted to the vestry.

[blue-duncan]

“table any further consideration of this bill for the duration of this session, and ask the Attorney General his opinion regarding the constitutionality of the existing law that sets different rules for five named separate religions....”

The way this fiasco helps in the Connecticut cases is we have been trying to devise a way to get the Attorney General to give an opinion on the constitutionality of the specific ecclesiastical laws that would include those for the Protestant Episcopal Church. I just argued in a preliminary motion in one case that they are unconstitutional but the court deferred to the history of the statutes.

An Attorney General’s opinion that the statutes are unconstitutional won't do much in our attack on the Dennis Canon, but it will undercut TEC’s argument that the local church is a statutory creation of the Diocese rather than independent society that has voluntarily associated with the Diocese.