Breakaway Anglicans Can Keep Churches Worth $500 Million, Rules South Carolina Judge

South Carolina "Round-up"-

In the "land and building wars" long fought within mainline denominations, the denomination usually wins. But this week, a South Carolina judge ruled that bishop Mark Lawrence and 36 South Carolina parishes had the right to leave The Episcopal Church in 2012 and take with them $500 million in property.

“In all of TEC’s governing documents, no rule exists prohibiting the withdrawal of one of its member dioceses,” Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein wrote in her opinion. As such, she wrote, TEC defendants have no legal or other right to the plaintiffs’ “real, personal, and intellectual property.”

More here-

http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2015/february/breakaway-anglicans-can-keep-churches-500-million-south-car.html

Christian Century-

http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-02/breakaway-south-carolina-episcopalians-win-major-court-case

From The Blaze-

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/05/battle-over-homosexuality-and-theology-leads-to-major-loss-for-the-episcopal-church-as-judge-sides-with-breakaway-diocese/

From Greenville-

http://gsabusiness.com/news/53655-judge-sides-with-breakaway-episcopal-churches?rss=0