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  • 'Principle, not property' [Court: Congregations who protest perversion must forfeit facilities]

    01/06/2009 10:28:30 PM PST · by XR7 · 12 replies · 892+ views
    WORLD ^ | 1/6/09 | Lynn Vincent
    Bad news travels fast. Though tucked away at a clerical retreat in Nigeria, it took only a flash of electrons for Anglican Bishop Martyn Minns to receive news of the California Supreme Court’s property dispute ruling against St. James parish in the city of Newport Beach, Calif. The court on Monday ruled that the congregation, whose facility overlooks luxury yachts afloat on Lido Channel, must surrender that property to the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. St. James is one of about 100 U.S. Episcopal congregations that in recent years have split with the national church hierarchy, first over the ordination...