Rector Battles Against Liberal Drift of Episcopal Church
Mark Ellis
ASSIST News Service/Agape Press

He leads one of three Episcopal parishes in California that stood up against the consecration of an openly homosexual bishop in New Hampshire. After his church bolted from its diocese and aligned with the conservative Anglican Church in Uganda, a battle erupted with his former diocese concerning ownership of their buildings and other property.

"I'm confident we'll win in the end," says Father Bill Thompson, rector of All Saints Anglican Church in Long Beach. One of the three breakaway churches -- St. James Church in Newport Beach - won their first round in court recently after a Superior Court judge ruled in their favor based on free-speech rights. Thompson's church will have a hearing later this year with the same issues in play. the rest