Man asks court to change his name to 'In God We Trust'

[Ichingcarpenter]

ZION, Ill. AP news May 4, 2008

- Steve Kreuscher wants a judge to allow him to legally change his name. He wants to be known as "In God We Trust."


Kreuscher (CROY'-shir) says the new name would symbolize the help God gave him through tough times.

The 57-year-old man also told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald he's worried that atheists may succeed in removing the phrase "In God We Trust" from U.S. currency.

He recalls that the phrase "God Reigns" was removed from the Zion city seal in 1992 after courts deemed it unconstitutional. Zion was founded as a theocracy — by a sect that believed the Earth was flat.

The school bus driver and amateur artist in the northern Chicago suburb says he has filed a petition to change his name in Lake County Circuit Court.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080504/ap_on_fe_st/odd_name_change


A little about the town and Flat Earthers.

Certain Americans then took up the torch of flat-earthism, convinced that the globularists were out to undermine the Bible. There was Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who lived on a diet of buttermilk and Brazil nuts but still died at 72; John Alexander Dowie, who founded the rigorously flat-earthist Zion City on 6,500 acres of prime Illinois farmland in 1899, a heaven on earth from which pigs, oysters, tobacco and trades unions were all excluded; and Charles Kenneth Johnson, who was still warning about the falsehoods of “evilution” and “Copernicious” as late as the 1970s.


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/history/article1672192.ece

[saltpoint]

1. This inspires me to ask a court to have my name changed to

"Double your pleasure / double your fun / with Double-Mint, Double-Mint, Double-Mint gum."

I'm nothing if not trendy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. I don't think I would want "In God we Trust" driving my kid to school

Unless he was sitting in the back of the short bus with a pretend steering wheel.

[saltpoint]

7. LOL! Good point.

[Duke Newcombe]

2. Those zany God-believers and the things they believe!

Can't wait till we form the camps for them. That'll learn 'em!

Duke

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. We call them schools not camps in our parts

I think the churches and their 'camps' have done enough harm lately

[Duke Newcombe]

10. I didn't give it my post the overused "sarcasm" smiley...

...I see now that was a mistake.

Duke

[panader0]

3. I claim rights to "None of the Above"

[flvegan]

4. He wants to be named after a Stryper album?

To each his/her own, I guess.

[datasuspect]

6. dibs on "to be determined"

[Miss Carly]

8. I have dibs on...N/A

it's short and easy to remember.
Carly