{"id":22027,"date":"2010-09-25T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fort_worth_episcopal_group_takes_name_dispute_to_federal_court\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T18:30:55","slug":"fort_worth_episcopal_group_takes_name_dispute_to_federal_court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22027","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Episcopal group takes name dispute to federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle over the name of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has gone to federal court, with a trademark lawsuit filed against Bishop Jack Iker by the local group that chose to remain affiliated with the national church.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, delegates of the 19,000-member Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth voted overwhelmingly to leave the national denomination over issues including same-sex unions and the ordination of women. Several churches remained with the national denomination, and both groups now operate as the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed this week, contends that even though the Iker-led group left the national Episcopal Church, it &#8220;has been continuously providing, advertising and marketing its religious services under the name and service mark &#8216;The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/09\/24\/2493847\/fort-worth-episcopal-group-takes.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle over the name of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has gone to federal court, with a trademark lawsuit filed against Bishop Jack Iker by the local group that chose to remain affiliated with the national church. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22027\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,66,114,376,655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}