{"id":20408,"date":"2010-06-17T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/virginia_supreme_court_sends_church_property_case_back_to_lower_court\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:20:15","slug":"virginia_supreme_court_sends_church_property_case_back_to_lower_court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20408","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Supreme Court sends church property case back to lower court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese considers this a small victory, and the Anglican District refuses to view it as a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn reflection, the ruling actually supports several of the things that we were claiming, most significantly that there has in fact been a division in the church,\u201d\u009d said Jim Oakes, chairman of the Anglican District of Virginia. \u201cThis is a very long way from a situation in which they won and we lost.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Henry Burt, secretary of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, said, \u201cThere\u2019s no question that several of our congregations left the diocese. But this is not a fractured church.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\nBurt said the division didn\u2019t count as an official split in the church because \u201cthese churches decided to leave for an organization that had been set up before they decided to leave.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Until the final decision, both sides will remain in limbo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loudountimes.com\/index.php\/news\/article\/va._supreme_court_sends_church_property_case_back_to_lower_court345\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese considers this a small victory, and the Anglican District refuses to view it as a total loss. \u201cOn reflection, the ruling actually supports several of the things that we were claiming, most significantly that there has in fact<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20408\">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":[36,39,66,114,376,642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20408","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-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20408","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=20408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}