A.S. Haley: Can a Diocese Leave ECUSA? Squaring Off in San Joaquin

Thursday, November 5, 2009

In the first post in this series dealing with the writ proceedings in the Fifth District Court of Appeal involving Bishop Lamb's and ECUSA's lawsuit against Bishop Schofield, I quoted the sections of Bishop Schofield's opening brief which introduced the matter and laid out the petitioners' (Bishop Schofield and the entities he heads) theory of the case. In this post I shall quote from the sworn allegations made in the petition itself, together with the sworn responses made by Bishop Lamb et al. That way, you can best see how the issues have been joined. In what follows, the purple text is from the Petition filed by Bishop Schofield and his attorneys; the red text is from the Return filed by Bishop Lamb and his attorneys. These are indeed critical to the case, so let those who wish to understand the issues involved "read, mark and inwardly digest': the rest