Saturday, February 25, 2012

Va. Attorney General Intervenes for Breakaway Anglicans in Property Battle


From Virginia-

A month after a Virginia judge ruled against seven congregations leaving The Episcopal Church, the Virginia attorney general filed a brief on behalf of the departing Anglicans citing religious freedom.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's brief, filed on Wednesday with the Fairfax County Circuit Court, argued that the departing congregations should be allowed to keep their personal property and donations they made to the churches they inhabited.

Faith McDonnell, a member of Church of the Apostles, which is one of the seven churches involved in the property controversy, told The Christian Post that she agreed with the attorney general.

"Cuccinelli is very right when he says that this is a religious freedom issue," said McDonnell.

"There is a violation of religious freedom in taking the funds and/or other property given to the churches by members and other friends that intended them to go to that particular body of believers."

More here-

http://www.christianpost.com/news/va-attorney-general-intervenes-for-breakaway-anglicans-in-property-battle-70248/

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