{"id":28530,"date":"2011-10-01T02:12:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T02:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_connecticut-_court_says_anglican_parish_cant_keep_property\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T02:12:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T02:12:32","slug":"ap_connecticut-_court_says_anglican_parish_cant_keep_property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28530","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Connecticut. court says Anglican parish can&#39;t keep property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Ian T. Douglas of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut said Friday that he wants to meet with the parishioners to discuss their options, ranging from rejoining the Episcopal faith to leaving the property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a sad circumstance when other Christians are forced to resolve their disputes in court, because that draws significant resources away from our work in the wider world in service of God&#8217;s mission,&#8221; Douglas said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a long and bad process. There are no victors here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parishioners released a statement saying they were going to talk with their lawyers about what to do next. They didn&#8217;t say whether they were considering appealing to a federal court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2011\/09\/30\/national\/a084401D38.DTL\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Ian T. Douglas of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut said Friday that he wants to meet with the parishioners to discuss their options, ranging from rejoining the Episcopal faith to leaving the property. &#8220;It&#8217;s a sad circumstance when other<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28530\">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":[36,39,66,114,372,376,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-connecticut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530","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=28530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}