Commentary: Episcopal national HQ hides lawsuit costs
Les Kinsolving
Posted: July 24, 2007

If you are among the nation's reportedly 2.2 million Episcopalians, you surely ought to have the right to know how much of your church offerings are being spent by national headquarters on current lawsuits.

These lawsuits are against the congregations of Episcopal churches all over the United States – whose communicants and clergy agree with numerous condemnations of sodomy that are in the Holy Bible (including what happened in Sodom).

Because of their strong belief in this biblically-established Christian teaching, and in the First Amendment to the Constitution's promise of freedom of religion and speech, the national headquarters of the denomination, in New York City, has gone into civil court against them.

In repeated lawsuits, this national church headquarters is actually trying to take away all the local church property of those who, in conscience, have affiliated with other branches of the 76-million member Anglican Communion. the rest