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Some VERY encouraging analysis of the SC and Ft. Worth decisions. I pray this will become an expanding crack in the remarkable legal assumptions that Ms. Jefferts-Schori,et.al. seem to believe. The idea that a group can take possession of another group’s property by simply declaring ownership without conveyance by the owners in question simply had to prevail at some point. The cleft stick the rump diocese of Ft. Worth has reached is almost amusing.

The SC decision, in its precise wording, would seem to render it strictly a matter of SC law regarding the legal establishment of a trust and conveyance of property and hence a matter outside of Federal jurisdiction (including US Supreme Court review). Hope this is true. No doubt the Presiding Biologist has her legal department trembling as they try to construct some imaginative piece of legal gymnastics with which to dazzle us. Any reaction from Bp. Lawrence yet? I would hope the removal of property concerns from the debate might lend itself to new and more relaxed areas of discussion within the D of SC.