The Death of Mainstream Protestantism

The California Supreme Court has essentially - as acknowledged in Justice Kennard's concurrence - returned to hierarchical principles for the determination of church property disputes. This means that California provides a major piece of persuasive authority for those declining Protestant denominations that have "departed from doctrine" and which are consequently seeing membership depart them.

In reaching its decision, the Court returned to the law of California that existed in the Nineteenth Century, but without the "departure from doctrine" provision that kept denominations honest to their founding principles.

This is now the second recent decision that incorporates a result oriented outcome in favor of the gay agenda to radically reshape the law.