{"id":24010,"date":"2011-01-15T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christ_church_savannah_responds_to_georgia_supreme_court_decision_to_hear_i\/"},"modified":"2011-01-15T20:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:40:42","slug":"christ_church_savannah_responds_to_georgia_supreme_court_decision_to_hear_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24010","title":{"rendered":"Christ Church Savannah Responds to Georgia Supreme Court Decision To Hear Its Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Georgia has determined that it will rule on the lawsuit brought against Christ Church in Savannah by The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Georgia, which seek to seize the historic congregation\u2019s downtown property even though Christ Church has always maintained clear title to its property.  Having lost in the lower courts, Christ Church appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court this past August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gratified that the Supreme Court will hear our appeal,\u201d\u009d said David Reeves, governing board chairman of Christ Church.  \u201cSince this case will have ramifications for all Georgia churches, regardless of denomination, we think it is appropriate for the highest court in our state to rule on these issues,\u201d\u009d he continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christchurchsavannah.org\/Legal\/AppealDecision.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Georgia has determined that it will rule on the lawsuit brought against Christ Church in Savannah by The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Georgia, which seek to seize the historic congregation\u2019s downtown property even though<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24010\">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":[36,39,66,114,376,654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24010","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-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010","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=24010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}