Breakaway Episcopal parishes appeal ruling
Three conservative parishes that severed their ties with the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles have filed petitions asking the California Supreme Court to review a recent appeals court decision that upheld the diocese’s claim to the parishes’ buildings and other property.
The churches -- St. James in Newport Beach, All Saints in Long Beach and St. David’s in North Hollywood -- pulled out of the Los Angeles Diocese and the Episcopal Church in 2004, citing differences over biblical interpretation, including what they described as the diocese’s too-lenient views on homosexuality.
They placed themselves under the authority of a conservative Anglican bishop in Uganda.
The Los Angeles Diocese sued, arguing that the parishes held their church buildings in trust for the diocese and the national Episcopal Church.
A trial judge ruled in favor of the parishes, but a state appeals panel reversed that in June.
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