When the Rev. Jose Poch learned a high court ruling Monday could spell eviction of his 78-year-old parish from St. David’s Church, he was prepared to pack his bags and Bibles.
The California Supreme Court unanimously decided that a breakaway parish like his could not hang onto church property.
“We have to find a place,” said Poch, rector of the North Hollywood church. “We must worship the Lord in any way we can.”
The court ruled that St. David’s and two other Southern California parishes that split from the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of [noncelibate] gay ministers cannot retain ownership of church buildings and property.
“I’m a Christian,” says Bruno? Oh, please……DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH, Jon Bruno! Your statements prove otherwise!
“et tu Bruno.”
How in the world, as Bruno has it, is “reconciliation” encouraged through the threat of the loss of property? Are principles for sale? Either I don’t know what he means here or, for Bruno and the revisionists, this whole matter of Robinson and scriptural interpretation boils down to the question of property.