{"id":22439,"date":"2010-10-19T15:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_fourth_lawsuit_arrives_in_the_diocese_of_fort_worth\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T15:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:29:58","slug":"a_fourth_lawsuit_arrives_in_the_diocese_of_fort_worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22439","title":{"rendered":"A Fourth lawsuit arrives in the Diocese of Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> With three suits pending in two Texas counties, members of the minority that chose to stay in The Episcopal Church (TEC) two years ago have launched another assault on much the same grounds as the first three. Today All Saints\u2019 Episcopal Church on Crestline Road in Fort Worth has sued Bishop Jack Iker personally, in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>There can no longer be any doubt that this litigation is intended to harrass, intimidate, bankrupt, and divert the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, its Corporation, and its leadership \u201d\u201c particularly Bishop Iker \u201d\u201c from carrying out the mission of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, only this weekend Bishop Iker made several comments in jest to a gathering of clergy and laity of the Church of England in London, saying that he had \u201cnot checked the Internet today\u201d\u009d to see whether he had been sued again.<\/p>\n<p>In dispute now is the right of the Bishop to recognize a parish in the Diocese as All Saints\u2019 Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwepiscopal.org\/news\/fourthsuit.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With three suits pending in two Texas counties, members of the minority that chose to stay in The Episcopal Church (TEC) two years ago have launched another assault on much the same grounds as the first three. Today All Saints\u2019<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22439\">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":[36,39,66,370,114,372,376,655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-house-of-deputies-president","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439","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=22439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}