Editing Creativity (religion) (section)

===Creativity Movement===
Matthew F. Hale founded the New Church of the Creator in 1996, later renamed the World Church of the Creator. Hale's World Church of the Creator was a new and separate group rather than a direct successor to Ben Klassen's Church of the Creator. Until his arrest in 2003, Hale was the only Pontifex Maximus of the now-defunct World Church of the Creator. The current group known as The Creativity Movement is a [[white power skinhead]]-oriented direct successor to Hale's World Church of the Creator.

Headquartered in [[Zion, Illinois]], with a heavy concentration of Creators in [[Montana]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/creativity-movement |title=The Creativity Movement &#124; Southern Poverty Law Center |website=Splcenter.org |access-date=2016-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729062216/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/creativity-movement |archive-date=July 29, 2017 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and 24 regional branches, it also claims to have local branches and members "all over the world".<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.religioustolerance.org/wcotc.htm | archive-url= https://archive.today/20120909031600/http://www.religioustolerance.org/wcotc.htm | url-status= usurped | archive-date= September 9, 2012 | title = The Creativity Movement |publisher=Religious tolerance | access-date=November 24, 2012}}</ref>

In 2000 the Oregon-based TE-TA-MA Truth Foundation filed a lawsuit against the World Church of the Creator for using the name "Church of the Creator", since the Oregon group had trademarked and registered the name in 1982.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=64 | title=What's in a Name? | publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] | date=Winter 2002 | access-date=August 17, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713233120/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=64 | archive-date=July 13, 2007 | url-status=dead }}</ref> U.S. District Court Judge Joan Lefkow ruled for the World Church of the Creator.<ref name=SPLC2003>{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/world-church-creator-turmoil-after-leader-matt-hale-imprisoned|title=World Church of the Creator in Turmoil After Leader Matt Hale Arrested|website=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=April 15, 2003|last1=Beirich|first1=Heidi|last2=Potok|first2=Mark|access-date=February 17, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=60 | title=Creator Crack-Up | publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] | date=Winter 2002 | access-date=August 17, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195105/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=60 | archive-date=September 27, 2007 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In December 2002, the World Church of the Creator was fined $1,000 for each day it continued using the old name.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.adl.org/learn/news/WCOTC_1000.asp | title = White Supremacist Group Fined $1,000 a Day | publisher = The Anti-Defamation League | date = May 1, 2003 | access-date = May 13, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629094642/http://www.adl.org/learn/news/WCOTC_1000.asp | archive-date = June 29, 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Hale church fined on trademark; U.S. judge sets penalty until it stops using name |author=Shia Kapos, Tribune staff reporter |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=April 25, 2003 |page=C3}}</ref> Further appeals were denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.churchofthecreator.org/TM/7th%20Circuit%20Opinion%20of%20July%2025,%202002.pdf | title=Appeals Court ruling | access-date=November 21, 2016 | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094407/http://www.churchofthecreator.org/TM/7th%20Circuit%20Opinion%20of%20July%2025,%202002.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://openjurist.org/297/f3d/662/te-ta-ma-truth-foundation-family-of-uri-inc-v-world-church-of-the-creator|title=297 F3d 662 Te-Ta-Ma Truth Foundation Family of Uri Inc v. World Church of the Creator|first=United States Court of Appeals, Seventh|last=Circuit.|date=January 1, 2002|volume=F3d|issue=297|access-date=February 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>A [[Supreme Court of the United States]] denial of further review ([[certiorari]]) was issued in January 2003.{{cite web |url=http://www.churchofthecreator.org/TM/USSupremeCourtCertiorariDenied01-13-03.pdf |title=Supreme Court denial of certiorari) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051027032845/http://www.churchofthecreator.org/TM/USSupremeCourtCertiorariDenied01-13-03.pdf |archive-date=October 27, 2005 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Hale was charged with contempt of court and soliciting the murder of judge Joan Lefkow,<ref name=SPLC2003/> and sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment on April 6, 2005.<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref>Natasha Korecki and Frank Main, "Hale gets max: 40 years in prison," Chicago Sun Times, 7 April 2005,</ref> [[Bill White (neo-Nazi)|Bill White]] was convicted of threatening a juror in the Matthew Hale case and sentenced to 42 months in prison.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/02/21/white-supremacist-gets-42-months-for-targeting-federal-juror/|title=White supremacist gets 42 months for targeting federal juror|date=February 21, 2013|access-date=February 17, 2017|last1=Doyle|first1=Bridget|last2=Sweeney|first2=Annie}}</ref>

In early 2017, a group which referred to itself as the "Guardians of the Faith Committee" of the Creativity Movement elected James Costello of England as its "Pontifex Maximus".<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://creativitymovement.net/blog/state-of-the-church-44ac-2017/ | title=State of the Church 44AC (2017) – the Creativity Movement | access-date=March 29, 2017 | archive-date=May 17, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517201159/http://creativitymovement.net/blog/state-of-the-church-44ac-2017/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Costello was convicted of [[Incitement to ethnic or racial hatred#United Kingdom|inciting racial hatred]] in November 2023, and he was sentenced to serve a 5 year prison term.