{"id":10599,"date":"2009-01-08T20:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/george_conger_in_religious_intelligence_double_edged_verdict_in_california_\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T20:35:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:35:30","slug":"george_conger_in_religious_intelligence_double_edged_verdict_in_california_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10599","title":{"rendered":"George Conger in Religious Intelligence: Double-edged verdict in California court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Supreme Court has issued a double-edged verdict in the Episcopal Church property cases, handing both the Diocese of Los Angeles and three breakaway parishes a defeat in their bids to control disputed church properties.<\/p>\n<p>By a vote of 6 to 0 &#8212; with the seventh judge issuing a separate opinion that agreed with the ruling but rejected the legal arguments of the majority &#8212; the California Supreme Court rejected the Episcopal Church\u2019s arguments that the state must defer to the church in adjudicating church property disputes. The judges held that California courts must use \u201cneutral principles\u201d\u009d of law to resolve church property dispute &#8212; giving no deference to claims made by the church hierarchy not found in the underlying title and corporate charters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.co.uk\/news\/?NewsID=3594\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Supreme Court has issued a double-edged verdict in the Episcopal Church property cases, handing both the Diocese of Los Angeles and three breakaway parishes a defeat in their bids to control disputed church properties. By a vote of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10599\">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-10599","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\/10599","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=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}