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Home Front: Culture Wars
Self-proclaimed messiah receives federal funding - your tax dollars at work
2004-10-04
Moonies knee-deep in faith-based funds
Pushing celibacy, marriage counseling under Bush plan
President Bush has some new troops in his crusade to promote "healthy marriage" and teen celibacy with federal funds -- followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial Korean evangelist and self-proclaimed new world messiah.
How nice. Any megalomaniac is now eligible for federal funding.
At least four longtime operatives of Moon's Unification Church are on the federal payroll or getting government grants in the administration's Healthy Marriage Initiative and other "faith-based" programs. Two of those Moon associates were in Oakland last week leading dozens of local pastors and social workers enrolled in a "Certified Marriage Education Training Seminar" at the Holiday Inn next to the Coliseum. In some ways, Moon is an unlikely ally for President Bush's crusade to promote traditional family values.
Convicted tax cheat and cult leader, what's not to like?
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