{"id":184820,"date":"2012-01-12T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/12\/good-news-everyone-bigots-dont-get-to-steal-property\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T03:05:00","slug":"good-news-everyone-bigots-dont-get-to-steal-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/12\/good-news-everyone-bigots-dont-get-to-steal-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News Everyone! Bigots Don&#8217;t Get to Steal Property."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a bunch of bigots were upset with the Episcopal Church not hating on te ghey enough, so they left the Episcopal Church, and affiliated with a &#8220;Kill the Gays&#8221; Anglican Bishop in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now a judge has ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/va-judge-rules-against-conservative-churches-in-property-case\/2012\/01\/11\/gIQAIX2dqP_story.html\">their churches are property of the Diocese of Virginia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A Virginia judge has ruled against seven conservative congregations that broke away from the Episcopal Church in 2006, rejecting their argument that they should be able to keep some $40 million in church real estate that the national denomination also claims.<\/p>\n<p>The case has drawn worldwide attention because it involves a cluster of large, prominent churches with well-known conservative pastors and because the issues at hand \u2014 particularly the Episcopal Church\u2019s acceptance of same-sex relationships as equal to heterosexual ones \u2014 are roiling much of organized religion. Various Protestant congregations in particular have wound up in litigation across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The 113-page ruling was handed down Tuesday by Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy Bellows.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the congregations said they were considering their next step, but a letter sent to some 4,600 congregants sounded as though they are bracing for the worst. Each congregation has a contingency plan if they have to vacate, said Caitlin Bozell Manaois.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t happen to a more repulsive group of people.<\/p>\n<p>For too many people, religion is just an excuse to hate.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, it appears that Caitlin Bozell Manaois is Brent Bozell&#8217;s daughter.&nbsp; (She works at CRC Public Relations, which is one of his front groups)<\/p>\n<p>Brent Bozell is the head of the &#8220;Media Research Center&#8221; and is probably best known for referring to Barack Obama as a, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L._Brent_Bozell_III\">skinny ghetto crackhead<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a bunch of bigots were upset with the Episcopal Church not hating on te ghey enough, so they left the Episcopal Church, and affiliated with a &#8220;Kill the Gays&#8221; Anglican Bishop in Nigeria. Well, now a judge has ruled that their churches are property of the Diocese of Virginia: A Virginia judge has ruled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,972,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-justice","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}