Why are some of the capital's most influential power players hanging out with a bizarre Korean billionaire who claims to be the Messiah? Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building? The Washington Post didn't think so.
Unification Church
Moonies knee-deep in faith-based funding
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. 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.