Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Fort Worth Leadership Responds to Executive Council Actions

http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=3449

[The Living Church] 20 June 2007--“That the council would attempt to interfere now, nearly 20 years after this diocese first amended its constitution, is evidence of an illegitimate magisterial attitude that has emerged in the legislative function of TEC,” states a release signed by Bishop Iker and the Very Rev. Ryan Reed, president of the standing committee.

“To this, we respond, first that it is not within the scope of duties assigned to the Executive Council to render finding as to the legality or constitutionality of actions by the several dioceses of The Episcopal Church; and second, that resolutions adopted by the council or even by the General Convention, are non-binding. Therefore, this resolution is nothing more than an opinion expressed by those individuals who issued the statement. It is itself ‘null and void’ – unenforceable and of no effect."

This action is another example of the heavy-handed tactics being used by those who do not have the right to interfere in the internal constitutional process of the dioceses.”

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