Took about 16 years to right this wrong. ECUSA had diocese take property from conservative congregations that did not want the Gay agenda. The families that had paid for and built those churches for generations had no claim to the property according the ECUSA.
Aren’t the Methodists in the midst of a similar schism? Will this bear on their situation?
And also, just to show how classy they were, they threw a tantrum on their way out the door: https://virtueonline.org/tec-parish-ft-worth-strips-church-building-they-leave
From my experience in attending an Anglican Church that broke off from the Episcopalians
Liberal states courts will rule for the faction that is “progressive” - want to replace the family with something else.
Conservative state courts will rule for the faction that wants to protect children from indoctrination
Progressives do not want pluralism - meaning toleration of gays to privately live as they choose while respecting the rights of traditional families and children. They want to criminalize churches, nonprofit adoption agencies, teachers or anyone who “discriminates’ against them. They want certain categories of people given superior rights over others. But they do not want it revealed that they want to gain superior legal rights over others by claiming themselves as victims. Portraying ones group as victims is very old tactic used often in Blblical times. There is an entire legal industry involved in this.
In the case of the Fort Worth diocese, it was an entire diocese that voted two to one to leave, not just a single or couple of churches that dissented.
One reason why the value is so high is because it also includes two private religious school buildings.