The article seems slanted against the conservative victors.
I think it’s the same as an old California case. The denomination was established as a corporation, so the court says. “With corporate law you shall live.”
I suspect they saw the same thing here. You can’t hide behind one paragraph of corporate law and ignore all the rest.
What gets my blood boiling is that the true dissidents were the liberal church members that fundamentally changed doctrine and the way the members worshiped to suit their liberal ideology. They then claimed those that chose to maintain church doctrine as it had been continually up until the true dissidents infiltrated and philosophically took over their churches from within the religion should be the ones forced to leave in order for them to maintain the theological integrity of their church as founded.
The libs then claimed ownership of the church buildings, even though those that built and financed the churches over the years since their inception, were forced to leave when the doctrine of the churches was bastardized by the “new” doctrine of the liberals. Destruction from the inside out, just like what is happening in our Country. We are being eaten alive by a metastasizing malignant tumor of liberalism that will destroy the host. It was the liberals that caused the philosophical mayhem in church congregations and forced the founding church members out of the very churches they built and financed under the true doctrines as had been preached in their churches from when the foundation stones were first laid. Liberals ruin most everything they touch over time.