The litigation agenda of the Episcopal Church (USA) continues to garner victories in California (where a single federal district court was allowed to overturn a constitutional initiative passed by a clear majority of voters). At the same time, ECUSA’s agenda in South Carolina suffered another defeat. Nonetheless, neither decision resolves any of the questions at issue once and for all. Thus, neither side may yet claim “victory”, but only to have reached one more stage in the interminable torture of litigation.
A.S. Haley Offers Thoughts on recent TEC Court Decisions in Calif. and South Carolina
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Well, the good news is that the long ordeal of the orthodox congregations that departed TEC is now over. Even St. James, Newport Beach, ahs settled with the diocese.
But what a Pyrrhic victory for +Bruno the Brute and the Diocese of LA. It’s now official, the diocese spent a whopping $8 million in order to win the disputed properties. $8 MILLION!! And that’s just what the diocese spent, and doesn’t include what TEC spent.
What a waste. What a scandal. Lord, have mercy.
David Handy+