Anglican Watch has learned that a member of St. James Texarkana has filed a Title IV complaint with the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas against rector James Halt. We are withholding the name of the complainant. The allegations claim that Halt attempted to push a gay couple out of the parish based on fabricated claims that…
A new Title IV clergy disciplinary complaint has been filed against Dallas Bishop George Sumner for retaliating against Rich Daly, an Episcopal priest who opposed the sexual harassment of an adult woman connected to St James Episcopal Church of Texarkana. Acting in collusion with rector David Halt, Sumner retaliated for Daly’s opposition to sexual harassment…
It’s long been a fundamental tenet within private companies that illegal conduct by an employee can and should result in immediate termination. Yet the Episcopal Church, which far too often treats Title IV, the clergy disciplinary canon, as the only solution to clergy misconduct, almost invariably ignores criminal conduct and other egregious misconduct by clergy….