22 September 2008

Whenever Two Or Three Are Gathered Together In My Name, There An Attorney Will Be In The Midst Of Them.

More proof that The Episcopal Church (tm) doesn't give a rat's ass about Christianity anymore. They're leading a lawsuit to make sure it isn't promoted:

This lawsuit seeks judgment declaring that the imminent gift of more than $12 million in property (the Gales School) and cash from the government of the District of Columbia to a gospel mission to assist it in carrying out its religious ministry violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and D.C. Code § 44-715, and seeks an injunction prohibiting the District of Columbia from making that gift.

What do they want? This:

Enjoin the defendant from conveying the Gales School property to the Mission except in exchange for its fair market value, or unless the Mission enters into an enforceable agreement with the District of Columbia prohibiting the Mission from engaging in religious activity at the Gales School property;

According to this news story, and this post, it's not quite as Bishop John Chane and his Lefty buddies claim. Big surprise.

Two YouTube videos of one of the plaintiffs, Eric Sheptock, are here and here.

Hattip: StandFirm.

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