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| No, this is not fake news, but actual legislation being considered in West Virginia. |
"That the question of admission, or, the rejection of such admission, of any county or independent city of the Commonwealth of Virginia desiring admission to the State of West Virginia, and a majority of whose qualified voters, voting on the question, have approved such measure, prior to August 1, 2020, shall be submitted to the voters of the State of West Virginia at the next general election to be held in the year 2020.
"Such proposal shall be placed upon the general election ballot in the following form: “Shall the following county (or independent city) _____________________(name), currently a constituent part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, be admitted to the State of West Virginia as a constituent county of the State of West Virginia.”
Most of us will see this as most likely never happening and as being constitutionally unthinkable. In other words, it's a ludicrous idea that should never even be considered.
Yet we think nothing of it when churches withdraw from their Conference bodies or from their denomination to join another group of their choice.
Maybe that doesn't represent a fair analogy, but are some examples of local Virginia Mennonite Conference congregations that were once a part of Virginia Conference and in many cases have affiliated with some outside group:
Most of us will see this as most likely never happening and as being constitutionally unthinkable. In other words, it's a ludicrous idea that should never even be considered.
Yet we think nothing of it when churches withdraw from their Conference bodies or from their denomination to join another group of their choice.
Maybe that doesn't represent a fair analogy, but are some examples of local Virginia Mennonite Conference congregations that were once a part of Virginia Conference and in many cases have affiliated with some outside group:
1835 Virginia Mennonite Conference (formed from Lancaster [PA] Conference)
1900 Old Order Mennonite Conference (left Virginia Conference and affiliated with Groffdale Old Order Conference in Pennsylvania)
1953 Wenger Old Order Mennonite group (unaffiliated)
1957 Mt. Pleasant Old Order Mennonite congregation (affiliated with Weaverland District Conference in Pennsylvania)
1972 Southeastern Mennonite Conference (organized as a separate conference)
1985 Timberville Mennonite Church (unaffiliated)
1990 Calvary Mennonite Church (affiliated with Ohio-based Biblical Mennonite Alliance)
2001 Cornerstone Churches (originally Mennonite, formed their own coalition of congregations)
2002 Mountain Valley District churches (first unaffiliated, then the largest of these congregations, Dayton Mennonite, later joined the Conservative Mennonite Conference [now simply "CMC"] headquartered in Irwin, Ohio)
2003 Broad Street Mennonite Church (unaffiliated)
2005 Shalom Mennonite (joined Central District Mennonite Conference headquartered in Goshen, Indiana)
2007 Lloyd Wenger Old Order Mennonite group (unaffiliated)
2016 New Beginnings Church (became non-denominational and has remained unaffiliated)
2016 New Beginnings Church (became non-denominational and has remained unaffiliated)
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