By A. S. Haley, the Anglican Curmudgeon. In a rather contorted opinion published today, the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno, California ruled that although “the trial court made several errors in its analysis of the case”, it would nevertheless affirm that court’s decision to turn over all the disputed property of the former…
By Jennifer Berry Hawes, The Post and Courier (South Carolina). When the ongoing lawsuit over The Episcopal Church’s local breakup saga landed before the state Supreme Court last week, several justices peppered questions at an attorney representing parishes that broke away from the national church. Among those who spoke most was Justice Kaye G. Hearn….
By A.S. Haley, The Anglican Curmudgeon blog. One hundred and twenty-nine of the bishops in the Episcopal Church (USA) House of Bishops voted yesterday to embrace blasphemy as a “trial rite” for same-sex marriages in the Church. The blasphemy begins in the rite at the point where the celebrant says to the congregation (see p. 98…
By A. S. Haley, Anglican Curmudgeon. The Episcopal Church (USA) has spent, and further committed (in its adopted budgets) to spend, a total of $42,675,466 on suing fellow Christians in the civil and ecclesiastical courts over the first eighteen years of this century. When one adds in the estimated additional amounts spent by individual dioceses on such…
By A.S. Haley, Anglican Curmudgeon. Late [April 15] the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a brief order transferring to itself the jurisdiction over the appeal filed by ECUSA and its rump group (ECSC) from the February 3, 2015 judgment and order against them entered by Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein. ECUSA and ECSC had themselves requested the transfer of the…