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To: trad_anglican
A statement from american anglican.org:

1. Do NOT say you are leaving the Episcopal Church
3. DO say you are NOT leaving the Anglican Communion.

Respectfully Disagree
25 posted on 08/08/2003 3:50:25 PM PDT by FreeRep (Proud to be American: John 3:16)
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To: FreeRep
A statement from american anglican.org:

1. Do NOT say you are leaving the Episcopal Church

3. DO say you are NOT leaving the Anglican Communion.

Respectfully Disagree

I understand where they're coming from. This is about property. Why should faithful Episcopalians just leave, and leave the considerable wealth and property of the church in the hands of the apostates?

I think a good argument can be made that that's what the liberals in the denomination want -- to be left in possession of the field, with the considerable property that's been built up by generations of the faithful.

Property in the Episcopal church is generally owned by the bishop in trust for the diocese. The national church IIRC doesn't own anything and is essentially an administrative body. At the very least the bishops who voted "NO" should be given time to make a good legal effort to bring their diocese into a "reformed" ECUSA intact.

27 posted on 08/08/2003 5:12:17 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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