August 22, 2008
Judge Rules In Favor of Breakaway Groups from Episcopal Abomination
A Fairfax County judge dealt the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia a third defeat in their efforts to retain millions of dollars of church property being held by 11 breakaway congregations. On Tuesday, Circuit Judge Randy I. Bellows ruled on whether the U.S. Constitution's contracts clause applies to the case and whether the breakaway churches had the right to invoke what's been termed the "division statute," an 1867 law that allows a majority of a breakaway church to retain the property. Tuesday's ruling is the latest chapter of a multi-trial battle pitting the diocese against the 11 conservative churches who broke away from the denomination over issues of biblical authority and the 2003 election of the sodomite Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.Click Here For The Full Story......
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