{"id":45179,"date":"2014-07-19T01:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T01:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/trial_day_9-tec_bishop_testifies_nothing_in_governing_documents_says_a_dio\/"},"modified":"2014-07-19T01:05:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T01:05:15","slug":"trial_day_9-tec_bishop_testifies_nothing_in_governing_documents_says_a_dio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45179","title":{"rendered":"SC Trial Day 9&#8211;TEC Bishop Testifies Nothing in Governing Documents Says a Diocese Can&#39;t Withdraw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before asking his final question, [Alan] Runyan placed the Constitution and Canons of TEC for 2006 and 2009 on the edge of the witness stand and asked Daniel to identify them.<\/p>\n<p>Runyan asked the witness to turn to the page in those documents where it says the diocese cannot withdraw from the Episcopal Church and read it to the court.  \u201cIs there a page or a phrase, or a sentence, in either of those that says, quote, a diocese may not leave the Episcopal Church without the consent of the general convention?\u201d\u009d asked Runyon. \u201cI don&#8217;t believe so,\u201d\u009d answered [Bishop Clifton] Daniel. \u201cBut I may be wrong.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m sure it will be pointed out if you are.\u201c answered Runyan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diosc.com\/sys\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=599:tec-bishop-testifies-nothing-in-governing-documents-says-a-diocese-cant-leave&#038;catid=1:latest-news&#038;Itemid=75\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before asking his final question, [Alan] Runyan placed the Constitution and Canons of TEC for 2006 and 2009 on the edge of the witness stand and asked Daniel to identify them. Runyan asked the witness to turn to the page<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45179\">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":[36,48,39,66,168,114,184,441,376,646,371,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-tec-polity-canons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45179","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=45179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}