That chasm between Bishop Lawrence and KJS will get a lot wider if these resolutions are passed next month. Count on it, and if they do pass, she will start proceedings against both him and the diocese.
I’m sure the lawyers for the Dio. S.C. are excellent, and they’re going to have to be for the looming legal fight ahead. I’m sure Cennydd13 is right, KJS & crew will move against Bishop Lawrence long before any second reading of these changes takes place.
Although there have been some legal victories for reasserters, the overall trend is not promising. There seems to be a failure of the judiciary to understand and distinguish the nature of hierarchy in the EPISCOPAL tradition. They seem to treat hierarchical churches as a generic class and their model seems to be the RC Church in this. I hope reasserters can clarify the essential differences between the nature of hierarchy in the RC Church and hierarchy in the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Yes, the Episcopal system is hierarchical, but in a profoundly different way than the RC Church and the U.S. courts seem unable or unwilling to make this distinction. Unless reasserts can get the courts to focus on these distinctions, I don’t see much hope when all of these legal challenges end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Don’t forget the good news–in South Carolina TEC doesn’t have a property interest in an individual church’s property, and presumably, not the dioceses’ property either. So KJS and crowd can depose whomever they want. Any victory for her will be quite hollow.
That chasm between Bishop Lawrence and KJS will get a lot wider if these resolutions are passed next month. Count on it, and if they do pass, she will start proceedings against both him and the diocese.
Count on that, too!
I’m sure the lawyers for the Dio. S.C. are excellent, and they’re going to have to be for the looming legal fight ahead. I’m sure Cennydd13 is right, KJS & crew will move against Bishop Lawrence long before any second reading of these changes takes place.
Although there have been some legal victories for reasserters, the overall trend is not promising. There seems to be a failure of the judiciary to understand and distinguish the nature of hierarchy in the EPISCOPAL tradition. They seem to treat hierarchical churches as a generic class and their model seems to be the RC Church in this. I hope reasserters can clarify the essential differences between the nature of hierarchy in the RC Church and hierarchy in the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Yes, the Episcopal system is hierarchical, but in a profoundly different way than the RC Church and the U.S. courts seem unable or unwilling to make this distinction. Unless reasserts can get the courts to focus on these distinctions, I don’t see much hope when all of these legal challenges end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Don’t forget the good news–in South Carolina TEC doesn’t have a property interest in an individual church’s property, and presumably, not the dioceses’ property either. So KJS and crowd can depose whomever they want. Any victory for her will be quite hollow.
And meaningful only to her, her buddies, and no one else.