Moonies knee-deep in faith-based funding

[OneBlueSky]

Pushing celibacy, marriage counseling under Bush plan
Don Lattin
San Francisco Chronicle Religion Writer
Sunday, October 3, 2004

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/03/MOON.TMP

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.

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.

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Before her new federal job, Hauer was the director of marriage education at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Conn. That school was taken over in 1992 by the Professors World Peace Academy, a Moon-affiliated group, and its current president, Neil Salonen, is a former president of the Unification Church in America.

After less than three days, attendees of the Sept. 23-25 seminar in Oakland were awarded a "Certified Marriage Education Professional Document of Completion," issued by Moon's University of Bridgeport.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/03/MOON.TMP

[Ruffhowse]

1. Bushco doesn't care who they deal with, as long as they are fellow

conservatives, even certified loonies like Rev. Moon. Someone should be watching this money VERY carefully. One of the best things about a Kerry administration would be the immediate termination of "faith based" government funding.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Or, "faith-based funding is knee-deep in Moonies."