{"id":93064,"date":"2020-05-22T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93064"},"modified":"2020-05-25T07:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:08:51","slug":"texas-supreme-court-makes-major-ruling-in-the-episcopal-church-case-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93064","title":{"rendered":"Texas Supreme Court Makes Major Ruling in the Episcopal Church case in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The court of appeals declined TEC\u2019s constructive-trust claim because such relief would require the court \u201cto delve into the mysteries of faith,\u201d impermissibly entangling the court in a dispute over religious doctrine.We agree with the analysis.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1446580\/180438.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tx Supreme Crt Makes Major Ruling in favor of the reasserters in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EpiscopalChurch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EpiscopalChurch<\/a> case in Ft Worth <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ngrnWYd8Aw\">https:\/\/t.co\/ngrnWYd8Aw<\/a> (photo: Tx Supreme Court) &#8220;No provisn in any of the organizational documents, including those of the natl church, precluded&#8221; the diocese from withdrawing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ox3XFqtxSV\">pic.twitter.com\/Ox3XFqtxSV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1263944735510736898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court of appeals declined TEC\u2019s constructive-trust claim because such relief would require the court \u201cto delve into the mysteries of faith,\u201d impermissibly entangling the court in a dispute over religious doctrine.We agree with the analysis.&#8217; Read it all. Tx<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93064\">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":[66,168,114,184,108,441,655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93064","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=93064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93076,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93064\/revisions\/93076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}