[Magdalen] Proposed Property Settlement in Episcopal Litigation Turned Down

[Jay Weigel]

Why am I thinking of Gollum in a miter? "Mine! My precioussssssss!"

I should smack myself upside the head for my uncharitable thoughts, I guess.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>