Extreme Theology
Kieschnick Threatening Lawsuit Agaist Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwarz
Sorry for the inside the LCMS baseball post. However, this information needs to get out.
Last march the LCMS cancelled the Issues, Etc. radio program. It created a huge brouhaha and ultimately the Issues, Etc. radio program was resurrected and their audience is larger and stronger than ever.
Apparently, this isn't sitting well with LCMS President Gerry Kieschnick who is now threatening a lawsuit against Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwarz over the Issues, Etc. trademark (a trademark that the LCMS abandoned in 1999 and a trademark that the LCMS has no intention of ever utilizing again)
What is the real reason why Kieschnick wants to sue Todd and Jeff? He wants to silence them.
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Is the LCMS Threatening "Issues, Etc." with a Lawsuit?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 03:18PM
Just got this with a request for immediate posting. It is from Chris Rosebrough's Extreme Theology blog. Here's the link (Click here: Extreme Theology: Kieschnick Threatening Lawsuit Agaist Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwarz).
According to Chris:
"Last march the LCMS cancelled the Issues, Etc. radio program. It created a huge brouhaha and ultimately the Issues, Etc. radio program was resurrected and their audience is larger and stronger than ever.
Apparently, this isn't sitting well with LCMS President Gerry Kieschnick who is now threatening a lawsuit against Todd Wilken and Jeff Schwarz over the Issues, Etc. trademark (a trademark that the LCMS abandoned in 1999 and a trademark that the LCMS has no intention of ever utilizing again)
What is the real reason why Kieschnick wants to sue Todd and Jeff? He wants to silence them."
Don't you just love church bureaucrats? I wonder how Ablaze is working, and if its "growing" the church?
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GJ - I knew Don Matzat, the LCMS pastor who began the radio show and left it. He is an unrepentant Pentecostal and advocate for DP Benke. But then, Paul McCain is another advocate for Benke.
When Kieschnick was District Pope in Texas, he altered a woman's will to benefit his organization. He argued in court that he was too dumb to know what he was doing. And they elected and re-elected him as Synod Pope anyway.
