https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2023/04/11/an-intractable-problem-187-methodist-churches-sue-north-georgia-conference-to-disaffiliate/
(Credit: christianchan/Adobe Stock)“It’s a difficult case, because these are Methodists who are sincere worshipers who have their sincerely held religious beliefs, and they are up against other sincere worshipers who have sincerely held religious beliefs, and it’s one of the reasons the problem is intractable and why they’re trying to put it in front of a secular court,” defense attorney Wick Cauthorn said.
April 11, 2023 at 06:46 PM
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What You Need to Know
- The North Georgia Conference paused a provision that would have allowed churches to disaffiliate while keeping their property on grounds of disinformation.
- The 185-church lawsuit is one of three cases protesting the decision that are making their way through Georgia courts.
- Plaintiff attorney David Gibbs is president of National Center for Life and Liberty, which has unified churches against the United Methodist Judicial Council in several states.
Daniel Parr of the Weaver Law Firm and David Gibbs, general counsel and president of the National Center for Life and Liberty, are representing 185 churches in one of three suits against the North Georgia United Methodist Conference in Cobb County Superior Court.
The basis of these breach-of-contract disputes is a pause on a provision that would have allowed churches to keep their property after disaffiliating until the next session of the United Methodist General Conference, which is currently scheduled for the last week of April 2024. This is a problem, as the disaffiliation provision is scheduled to sunset by the end of 2023.
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