Virginia Judge Affirms Parish Property Rights ; Civil War-Era Law Cited
The Washington Times › June 29, 2008
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A Virginia circuit judge has handed a crucial victory to a group of 11 former Episcopal churches that left the Diocese of Virginia 18 months ago over issues of theology and the 2003 consecration of the denomination's first openly gay bishop.
In a 49-page ruling issued Friday morning, Judge Randy I. Bellows said a Civil War-era statute allowing the churches to split and keep their property is constitutional.See the full content of this document
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Virginia Judge Affirms Parish Property Rights ; Civil War-Era Law Cited
"Simply put, [the division statute] was constitutional in 1867 when it became the law of the commonwealth of Virginia and it remains constitutional in 2008," the judge wrote.
There is no violation of the U.S....See the full content of this document
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