tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post8378826971579305977..comments2024-02-19T07:24:42.397-08:00Comments on Anglican Curmudgeon: Georgia Court of Appeals Rubber-Stamps Christ Church Savannah DecisionA. S. Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-26054470005029631352010-07-12T09:41:14.750-07:002010-07-12T09:41:14.750-07:00Mr. Haley,
I am prompted to inquire as to your op...Mr. Haley,<br /><br />I am prompted to inquire as to your opinion <i>in re</i> the level of literacy of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Do you think that their apparent inability to understand what they read (referring specifically to the fact which you addressed that their reading leaves a dangling clause unaddressed and unaddressable) is the result of illiteracy, of the desire not to become entangled in "the religious thicket," or to some third cause which I have failed to intuit? Their patent failute accurately to address the full language of the statute, to me, seems tantamount to the famed disregard, by the P.B. and her Chancellor, of the adverb "<i>Otherwise</i>" in TEC's canon IV.9.2, relating to <i>Abandonment of the Communion</i> by a Bishop. I am at a loss to understand how seemingly highly educated persons occupying positions of import, a principal tool of whose trade is the English language, can be so slovenly in their reading.<br /><br />Pax et bonum,<br />Keith Töpfer<br /><br />Pax et bonum,<br />KeithMartial Artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11679584221923893460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-858692580252484792010-07-10T17:38:50.622-07:002010-07-10T17:38:50.622-07:00Beware a court that uses "is comprised of&quo...Beware a court that uses "is comprised of" for "is composed of" or "comprises".Alan Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413914847275660133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-16061828769906150882010-07-10T05:42:47.364-07:002010-07-10T05:42:47.364-07:00Too bad the Georgia Justices did not bother to lea...Too bad the Georgia Justices did not bother to learn their fellow justices to their north (ie the South Carolina Supreme Court). <br /><br />Father Woodward, 18 mistakes do not make anything right! I realize that this tally up the victories will be TECUSA's approach to shove their heresy on the rest of us. Some of us are NOT buying it.<br /><br />The Denis Canon is DEAD in South Carolina ! Long Live the Church!<br /><br />SC Blu Cat Lady (in the one state which has gotten it right.)Alexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09222877183938209659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-36333827604203584542010-07-09T15:08:05.712-07:002010-07-09T15:08:05.712-07:00Father Woodward, it is thinking such as yours that...Father Woodward, it is thinking such as yours that keeps ECUSA going these days. Keep it up, and I am sure that eventually there will not be another Episcopalian around who disagrees with you.A. S. Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-66120623006910359222010-07-09T12:25:46.194-07:002010-07-09T12:25:46.194-07:00What is the scorecard now? It must be around 18-2 ...What is the scorecard now? It must be around 18-2 (with the two still on appeal. Are there any good lawyers who would advise their clients on the side of the 2 to keep spending good money in the hopes that somehow, somewhere the tide will turn.<br /><br />The issues seem clear at nearly every appellate level if not before that the principles of the Dennis Canon and custom before it prevail. That has been decided even at the Supreme Court level. <br /><br />Why not accept the fact that when you reject the doctrine and discipline of the Episcopal Church you are moving into a different denomination or into a non-denominational status -- and use your money for mission and ministry and let the church you have left do its own work without attempting to bankrupt it? <br /><br />The time for these lawsuits and attempts to alienate property is well over.Thomas B. Woodwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08742944114518979523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-16604462221025422412010-07-08T18:56:55.754-07:002010-07-08T18:56:55.754-07:00I can hear the chorus now,
"So we made a th...I can hear the chorus now, <br /><br />"So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,<br /> Sixty miles in latitude, 300 to the main.<br />Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain<br /> While we were marching through Georgia!"<br /><br />It still rings of a scorched Earth policy to me.Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.com