{"id":63373,"date":"2017-09-12T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63373"},"modified":"2017-09-12T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:54:52","slug":"the-state-chuck-croft-chimes-in-sc-supreme-court-got-it-wrong-on-episcopal-church-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63373","title":{"rendered":"(The State) Chuck Croft Chimes in&#8211;SC Supreme Court got it wrong on Episcopal Church dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am outraged by the recent S.C. Supreme Court decision that strips the title of 28 churches in the Diocese of South Carolina and awards them to the national Episcopal Church. As acting Justice Jean Toal wrote in a dissent: \u201cThe First Amendment prohibits civil courts from resolving church property disputes on the basis of religious doctrine and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/article171978357.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am outraged by the recent S.C. Supreme Court decision that strips the title of 28 churches in the Diocese of South Carolina and awards them to the national Episcopal Church. As acting Justice Jean Toal wrote in a dissent:<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63373\">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":[54,168,114,108,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63373","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=63373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63374,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63373\/revisions\/63374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}