Legalized Theft: Diocesan Property Grabs

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[Stand Firm] 31 Jan 2008--While most Episcopalian parishes were built to be part of a diocese, many if not most were not built by the diocese. While individual members associated through a given local parish to a given diocese maintain the buildings, the diocese, as an entity, rarely if ever maintains the building. While individual members associated through a given local parish to a given diocese worship, serve, occupy, and cultivate growth on a given piece of property, the diocese, as an entity neither worships, serves, occupies, or cultivates growth on that same property. While individual members associated through their parish to a given diocese might operate the parish property, the parish property is not operated by the diocese as an entity. In other words while the people of a given parish are indeed members of a diocese by virtue of their membership in the parish, the physical property is not nor was it ever diocesan property properly speaking. It was built, occupied, maintained, and cultivated by the people of the parish given parish.