[Magdalen] Proposed Property Settlement in Episcopal Litigation Turned Down

[Ginga Wilder]

You know, I 'knew' the breakaways would turn this down.  And, here I am,
feeling crestfallen.  How silly of me.  It would have been SO GOOD to be
rid of the fruitless litigation.  SIGH.

Ginga

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:50 PM, ROGER STOKES <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> I was afraid that would be the reaction to this offer.  The Lawrence group
> want to maintain the idea that they are the ones with the true claim to the
> Episcopal heritage while rejecting the implications of the whole way that
> the Anglican Communion is organized - with national Churches.  That is why
> they want to hold onto the title "The Episcopal Diocese" and the shield.
>
> The basic problem with all these groups who separate in protest is that
> the process is fissiparous - it leads to further division.  That is why you
> have the alphabet soup among the "Continuing Churches" - they cannot agree
> on something positive to base their collegiality on as what unites them is
> opposition to a body they dislike.  In time in this case they may come to
> realise that they have been hanging onto things which they have emptied of
> their real meaning, empty and worthless shells.  The sadness of it is that
> they are doing further damage to the Church's mission in diverting money
> and effort into this dispute rather than proclaiming the Gospel.
> Roger
>
>
>
>      On Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 0:41, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>  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
> >
>
>
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