{"id":48224,"date":"2015-02-04T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_south_carolina_court_rules_episcopal_diocese_churches_can_keep_property\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:00:17","slug":"ap_south_carolina_court_rules_episcopal_diocese_churches_can_keep_property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48224","title":{"rendered":"(AP) South Carolina court rules Episcopal diocese, churches can keep property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Carolina court has ruled that the Diocese of South Carolina and its parish churches are the owners of their property, not The Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>In a decision handed down Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein wrote that the diocese and its churches are &#8220;the owners of their real, personal and intellectual property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goodstein wrote that The Episcopal Church &#8220;has no legal, beneficial or equitable interest&#8221; in the diocese and its property.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2015\/02\/03\/3967532_sc-court-rules-episcopal-diocese.html?rh=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Carolina court has ruled that the Diocese of South Carolina and its parish churches are the owners of their property, not The Episcopal Church. In a decision handed down Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein wrote that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48224\">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":[36,48,39,186,66,168,114,184,373,441,372,376,646,371,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-presiding-bishop","category-stewardship","category-tec-bishops","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\/48224","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=48224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}