Court refuses to get involved in church dispute

WASHINGTON, DC - The Supreme Court won't get involved in a dispute between breakaway Episcopalians and their former national church over who owns a California parish and its property.

The high court refused yesterday to hear an appeal from the St. James Anglican Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles. It is one of several dozen individual parishes and four dioceses nationwide that voted to split from the national church after the 2003 consecration of the first openly homosexual Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire, V. Gene Robinson...