Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Episcopal Diocese's lawsuit put on hold

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080729/NEWS/807290318/1350&title=Church_lawsuit_put_on_hold

[The Press Democrat] 29 Jul 2008--A lawsuit over ownership of a Petaluma church was postponed Monday to await the outcome of a similar case before the California Supreme Court.

Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lloyd von der Mehden said in a tentative ruling that motions in the case brought by the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California against the breakaway St. John's Anglican Church would be continued to Dec. 2.

The diocese sued the congregation in February after it split from the church in objection to gay ordinations, but retained the 117-year-old church building on 5th and C streets.

Settlement offers were made to get the church building back, but the upstart church refused.

"Upstart church"!? It is evident where the reporter's sympathies lie.

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