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Federal Marshall will be involved in SDA trademark dispute on February 12th
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From email I recieved last week:
SDA NEWS RELEASE and EMERGENCY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY CONFERENCE INVITATION
February 12, 2010, a Day of Infamy at Guys, TN
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist attorneys, escorted by a Federal Marshal and Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church defense attorney will visit the CSDA Church house located at Guys, TN on Old Hwy 45 (at Stateline) on February 12, 2010. Their purpose will be to enforce a Permanent Injunction and Contempt Order handed down by Judge J. Daniel Breen, U. S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Eastern Division. It is so ordered that the Plaintiffs (General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists) take down the CSDA Church signage and remove all “offending articles” including “all labels, signs, packages, wrappers, receptacles, and advertisements bearing the SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST mark, or bearing the words SEVENTH-DAY or ADVENTIST, or the acronym SDA, either together, apart, or as part of, or in combination with any other words, phrases, acronyms or designs, or any mark similar thereto or likely to cause confusion therewith, and all plates, molds, matrices, and other means of making the same” with all expenses charged to the Defendant.
The Defendant CSDA pastor, Walter “Chick” McGill, of the Guys congregation is currently on mission to Africa and will not be present for the inquisition. Pastor McGill is proposing that all faithful souls adhering to the precious faith once delivered to the saints (viz., Seventh-day Adventism) and any others who love and appreciate the gift of individual conscience in religious matters convene for an emergency three-day “Religious Liberty Conference” at the Guys church house on Friday, February 12, 2010, 9:00 a.m.
It is requested that all who have expertise in the principles of religious freedom be there prepared to deliver lectures for the edification of all the attendees. It is further requested that laymen bring signage or placards protesting the “intrusion of the civil magistrate respecting individual conscience in religious matters.”
It is useful here to share a couple of germane quotations taken from the pen of inspiration:
“If God abhors one sin above another, of which His people are guilty, it is doing nothing in case of an emergency. Indifference and neutrality in a religious crisis is regarded of God as a grievous crime and equal to the very worst type of hostility against God.” [Testimonies for the Church Volume Three, page 280; bold font supplied]
“In every age God's chosen messengers have been reviled and persecuted, yet through their affliction the knowledge of God has been spread abroad. Every disciple of Christ is to step into the ranks and carry forward the same work, knowing that its foes can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. God means that truth shall be brought to the front and become the subject of examination and discussion, even through the contempt placed upon it. The minds of the people must be agitated; every controversy, every reproach, every effort to restrict liberty of conscience, is God's means of awakening minds that otherwise might slumber.” [Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, page 33; 1896; bold font supplied]
All interested parties are encouraged to contact Lucan Chartier at claimvictory@hotmail.com or call his cell phone, either 630-470-5858 or731-607-9546. The Guys CSDA sanctuary seats about 70 persons comfortably, and the property affords some accommodations, along with outdoor spaces for camping. Those who wish to prepare early for Sabbath may arrive on Thursday, February 11th. Also, it might be beneficial to bring cameras and video recorders to capture the historic happenings. Please join us for this momentous occasion.
I personally think this is something that if we are truly protestant christians we shouldn't ignore.
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And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time!
God.
After the death of founder, Herbert W. Armstrong, (1986) his successor, Joseph W. Tkach Sr., began to systematically change the church's teachings. In 1995, he made the most radical changes, dropping the Sabbath, and promoting a "New Understanding" of Easter and Christmas" Later,
the name was changed to Grace Communion International.
It shouldn't surprise us that GCI retained the rights to the TRADE MARKED name Worldwide Church of God after dropping nearly everything it stood for!
http://ecumenism.net/archive/news/2009/04/worldwide_church_of_go
d_announces_name_change.htm
Half the members left the church. Several Sabbath keeping organisations were formed:
Church of God International
Philadelphia Church of God (org. 1989)
Church of the Great God (1992)
Global Church of God (1992; now defunct)
Restored Church of God(1998)
No one still keeping the Sabbath can use the original name.
Some attempt to adhere closely to Armstrong's original teachings. Shouldn't they be allowed to use the original name? The name isn't descriptive, but its connected with certain teachings. A significant part of it was generic, shared by a long list of denominations.
The potential application to SDA's should be obvious. The precedent is right before our eyes. A church repudiates the Sabbath, changes the name, then refuses dissenters the right to use the original name. A group no longer wanting it retains control. Those who would continue to use it can't because they don't agree.
The guidelines for using "Seventh Day Adventist" might not be difficult to meet at this time. But if our statement of beliefs became more divisive, say, splitting us down the middle, those in charge of the trademark could disenfranchise the majority. Guidelines for Sabbath observance that many couldn't accept or a complete denial of the Sabbath by a few top leaders could prevent anyone worldwide from using our SDA name. The very confusion that trademarking was designed to prevent will result.
