[Magdalen] Proposed Property Settlement in Episcopal Litigation Turned Down

[Ginga Wilder]

Chancellor of The Episcopal Church in SC, Thomas S. Tisdale recently
presented a proposal for settlement of the litigation between Bishop Mark
Lawrence’s Church and The Episcopal Church in SC (TECSC). This proposal
offers the high road out of years of future legal fights and millions of
dollars spent unnecessarily on litigation.

Under this settlement, the two parties would have agreed to a compromise in
which each releases claim to a portion of the contested property. In
exchange for the real and personal property of 35 parishes involved in
litigation, The Lawrence Church would have relinquished claim to diocesan
property. TECSC would have received intellectual, real, and personal
property of the Episcopal Diocese of SC. These separate Christian
denominations would no longer be bound up in ugly litigation. This proposed
settlement would have allowed each party to move forward out of litigious
muck and to be the Church unencumbered by legal distractions.

Alas, the Lawrence church has rejected the proposed settlement. How sad for
all parties.

Virginia C. Wilder
Summerville, SC


Read more here:

Press Release on the Proposal:
http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dc801ce41dd668e19fb3a3b7a&id=93b9e8a712&e=bfa235e9ac


Response from Lawrence church: http://www.diosc.com/sys/index.php


Ginga