Moonies now control millions of Federal "faith-based" tax dollars!

[AirAmFan]

Looking at the backgrounds of the leaders of White House "faith-based" efforts, particularly those designed to promote adult marriage and teen abstinence, two institutions crop up repeatedly:

--Unification Theological Seminary (New York) and
--University of Bridgeport (Connecticut).

Both are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Rev. Sung-Myung Moon's Unification Church!

From http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/03/MNG4M936HP1.DTL

"Moonies knee-deep in faith-based funds

Pushing celibacy, marriage counseling under Bush plan

Don Lattin, Chronicle Religion Writer Sunday, October 3, 2004

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.

...longtime political operative in Moon front groups, David Caprara, now directs the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for the federal government's Corporation for National and Community Service. That agency runs, among other things, AmeriCorps Vista, which works with community organizations in low-income neighborhoods, and has emerged as a key player in Bush's faith-based initiative, handing out $61 million to faith-based organizations in fiscal year 2003.

Caprara is the former president of the American Family Coalition, a "grassroots leadership alliance" funded by the Washington Times Foundation and founded by Moon in 1984. Caprara declined to comment on his Unification Church ties, referring questions to his press secretary, Sandy Scott. 'We don't inquire about employee's personal religious beliefs,' Scott said. 'What inspires David's work is a dedication to fighting poverty.'

During the 1970s, Moon's Unification Church was widely accused of deceptively recruiting and "brainwashing" idealistic converts on street corners and college campuses across the nation."

[aquart]

1. PLEASE tell the fundies. Please, please, please.

Look who you're in bed with, dears. The Messiah.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. I thought they need to know myself,

then I googled Tim Lahaye Moon. There's alot of connections out there. I think they are so divorced from reality, they wouldn't recognise the problem with Moon.

If they expect the 2nd coming any minute, why couldn't it be a Korean CIA agent?

[AirAmFan]

8. Great point. Even the fundies themselves could be disturbed by these

developments. It's not just people in the "reality-based community" that need to worry when the White House moves away from reality.

[Wind Dancer]

9. There are a couple here in NC I found out

were RW fanatics who refuse to believe the Moonies are connected to their faith-based hate groups. They are so brainwashed and believe Armageddon is almost here that you can't get through to them. I have never seen anything like it before, they have an answer for everything, even when presented with facts.

[NVMojo]

2. ain't that just great, our tax dollars at work for GWB

[AirAmFan]

5. Considering Suskind's article in Sunday's NY Times, this development

makes a lot of sense.

When the White House departs from the "reality-based" paradigm all other administrations have followed, where is it going to look for staff?

If ultra-right-wing economists like Bruce Bartlett (interviewed by Suskind for his NY Times article) are out, it won't be long before occultist hypnotists are in!

President Kerry may need to hire some DEPROGRAMMERS for the agencies that have been infiltrated by Moonie mind-control specialists.

Four years ago, who knew that we'd be longing for the return of ultra-right economists to the White House!

[Jacobin]

3. This crap has GOT to stop

Thomas Jefferson must be spinning in his grave.

[joefree1]

4. Makes sense to me

Moonies and Bushies prey on the fearful and bitter.

"Some people may oppose me, but they will go down the drain after a while and end up in hell…. I came with the teaching that the world and religions should become one… Soon, the American president will have to visit me to seek advice."

* Sun Myung Moon, December 10, 2000, East Garden, New York source: http://www.unification.net/news/2000/news20001210.html

[AirAmFan]

7. Yeah--when the WH has 1000s of vacancies to fill outside the 'reality-

based community', it's forced to recruit out of all available nut-houses!