{"id":10545,"date":"2009-01-06T03:04:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_california_supreme_court_says_breakaway_parish_cant_take_national_\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T03:04:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T03:04:28","slug":"la_times_california_supreme_court_says_breakaway_parish_cant_take_national_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10545","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: California Supreme Court says breakaway parish can&#39;t take national church&#39;s property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a ruling written by Justice Ming W. Chin, the state high court said the property of St. James Episcopal Church in Newport Beach is owned by the national church, not the congregation. The congregation split away after the national church ordained a gay man, V. Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire, in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it disaffiliated from the general church, the local church did not have the right to take the church property with it,&#8221; Chin wrote for the court.<\/p>\n<p>The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles applauded the ruling even as he held out an olive branch to St. James and other parishes sued by his office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-episcopal6-2009jan06,0,1557951.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a ruling written by Justice Ming W. Chin, the state high court said the property of St. James Episcopal Church in Newport Beach is owned by the national church, not the congregation. The congregation split away after the national<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10545\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,66,114,376,652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}