[Magdalen] A California court has been asked to block the sale of St Jame...

[Zephonites at aol.com]

Jim
 
This is the article to which I was referring 
http://www.virtueonline.org/binghamton-ny-episcopal-diocese-sells-historic-church-muslims
 
The  death knell for the structure as a Christian house of worship was 
delivered on  February 9, 2010, when it was sold to Imam Muhammad Affify, doing 
business as  the Islamic Awareness Center, for a mere $50,000, a fraction of 
the church's  assessed $386,400 value.
 
That  isn't even mart business
 
Blessings
Martin
 
In a message dated 27/06/2015 22:28:24 GMT Daylight Time,  
jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:

From:  Zephonites--- via Magdalen

>You know that TEC's policy under the  present PB is not to sell back to a
>departing congregation (but rather  in one case they sold the building 
below

I know no such thing. Our PB  does not have that power. Several dioceses 
have 
sold churches to departed  congregations during the past 30 years or so 
when this 
crap started over  the 1979 BCP and Women's Ordination.

I do like the Xenophobic Muslim  reference in your e-mail though. In some 
quarters here in the U.S., that  would extend to "The PB is okay selling 
churches 
to Muslims but not okay  selling to poor downtrodden schismatics who harass 
their 
bishop (and hate  those LGBT people).

Seriously, I think you're unfamiliar with TEC, or  have at least been 
reading 
anti-TEC propaganda in lieu of actual news  of  TEC. Heck some of us even 
get a 
dose of that when The Livid  Church chows up on the doorstep <g>.

Cheers,
Jim