Comments on: Court rules for breakaway Episcopal parishes in Virginia http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/court-rules-for-breakaway-episcopal-parishes-in-virginia Religion editor Frank Lockwood's spirituality blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Caleb Powers http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/court-rules-for-breakaway-episcopal-parishes-in-virginia/comment-page-1#comment-6310 Caleb Powers Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:11:51 +0000 http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/court-rules-for-breakaway-episcopal-parishes-in-virginia#comment-6310 The statute appears to me to constitute an unlawful taking of property, but apparently the Virginia judge thought otherwise. I think it's hilarious that these guys, despite having broken every rule of the Anglican Communion, still claim to belong to it, and spend a whole paragraph of their press release lying about it. If a US Diocese tried to interfere in a Diocese in Africa the way the Africans are interfering here, they'd hear the howl all the way to Canterbury. But, because it's the conservatives doing this, they don't think they have to follow the rules. I've always said, let them go, and let them take their property. I'm sorry that the orthodox church has taken a hard line on this; we should have let them have their property in the beginning and not sued them. The statute appears to me to constitute an unlawful taking of property, but apparently the Virginia judge thought otherwise. I think it’s hilarious that these guys, despite having broken every rule of the Anglican Communion, still claim to belong to it, and spend a whole paragraph of their press release lying about it. If a US Diocese tried to interfere in a Diocese in Africa the way the Africans are interfering here, they’d hear the howl all the way to Canterbury. But, because it’s the conservatives doing this, they don’t think they have to follow the rules. I’ve always said, let them go, and let them take their property. I’m sorry that the orthodox church has taken a hard line on this; we should have let them have their property in the beginning and not sued them.

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