An even BIGGER scandal behind Bush's "marriage program" than just payola.

[blm]

While this is in the news we should take the opportunity to point out that Bush's marriage program is based on RevMoon's moonie marriage program and many of the marital "advisors" getting our tax dollars are trained at moonie seminars.

Read this article from last October and remember to ask WHERE is the rest of the media on this? The fundies have NO CLUE how thick Bush is with RevMoon. They are such fools.

It's a lengthy article but a MUST READ. It would be a GREAT rebuttal piece for ANYONE who claims Bush is a good Christian. No good Christian would align himself so closely with Moon who claims Jesus failed and he is the new messiah.

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

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Moonies knee-deep in faith-based funding
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.

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.

The 85-year-old Korean is perhaps best known for presiding over mass marriage ceremonies for devotees whose unions are arranged by Moon or other church leaders. After marriage, Unification Church couples are given detailed instructions for their honeymoon, right down to the sexual positions they are supposed to assume during their first three conjugal couplings.

According to Unification Church teachings, the children born from these marriages are "blessed children,'' who, unlike the rest of humanity, are born without original sin.


At the Oakland seminar, Josephine Hauer, a graduate of the Rev. Moon's Unification Theological Seminary in New York and a newly hired "marriage specialist" with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, worked the crowd of ministers and church workers packed into a stuffy room.

"Family is a good thing," said Hauer, holding a cordless microphone in one hand and her PowerPoint remote in the other. "I want to make this a marriage culture again -- a healthy marriage culture.''
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[aquart]

1. Moonie Marriage Program

Buy a Bush and set a policy.

[blm]

4. Don't let an opportunity pass to call it BUSH'S MOONIE MARRIAGE PROGRAM.

About time those two get nailed TOGETHER.

[aquart]

14. Excellent correction. ITA.

[roguevalley]

2. people hate moon. this needs to be out there.

[blm]

6. Yeah. And Bush1 AND 2 just spoke at a recent Moon event.

Fundies have NO clue how they are being used by these antiChrist fascists.

[EVDebs]

3. Moon's ties to the CIA and potentially Operation Mockingbird

as you can surmise yourself from Wayne Madsens' article

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen01142003.html

beg many questions. One can argue the extent of exactly how 'born again' W really is when he supports a guy who claims to be Jesus Christ incarnate (Rev. Moon) ... ""the self-declared reincarnation of Jesus Christ, the "Reverend" Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church"" and also

""Some former Washington Times officials claim The Washington Times and its affiliates are so tied in with Moon's agenda, its reporters and staff should register with the Justice Department as foreign lobbyists under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.""


Evangelicals should be questioning this President instead of following blindly. But maybe that's asking too much from the conservatives...after all W is 'electable', and that's all they ever cared about in the first place. Shame on them.

[blm]

10. Moon also had 135 ministers replace their Jesus cross with the Moon crown

in recognition of Moon's "crowning" last March in our tax dollar funded Senate Dirksen building.

[Skidmore]

24. Who are they?

[blm]

28. Sadly, mostly black ministers.

Black commentator had something about it and you could also check gorenfeld's site linked in post below for current Moon info.

[Jacobin]

5. Thomas Jefferson had it right

George Fucking Bush is a goddamned idiot

[Cheswick2.0]

8. So did Thomas Paine

"There should be an IQ requirment for holding public office"

[blm]

9. He's only an idiot if the press tells the truth.

Other than that, he's brilliant at keeping his Moon alliance out of the mainstream media.

[Richard Steele]

29. THX Jacobin, I actually laughed out loud!

It was the excellent set up that made it so perfect.

[Indiana_Dem]

7. Thanks again, blm. I'll save this one. nt

[blm]

11. Don't just save it...spread it around.

Send the article to your local newsrooms.

[AirAmFan]

12. Thanks for reposting this. I'm glad I reminded you about it in the

thread on Maggie Gallagher.By googling '"Wade Horn" "faith based" marriage', I found a mother-lode of minutiae on Bush's ill-advised "marriage initiative" at http://archives.his.com/smartmarriages .

Included in the text of several years' worth of newsletters are not just columns by Maggie Gallagher but also MANY complete columns from Michael McManus, a second "reporter" already exposed as on the HHS payroll (just control-F for "column #").

In addition, there well may be mentions of illegal and scandalous HHS grants to Moonies and "payolaganda" columns from other "journalists" on the take from Wade Horn, the delusional honcho of the "marriage initiative'.

[Califooyah Operative]

15. yea, thanks, it's super relivent inlight of recent events...nt

[blm]

16. That's why I jumped on it so fast. I googled Wade Horn and Moon 3yrs ago

when I first heard Bush's marriage program. He attended plenty of Moon sponsored seminars, so it wasn't difficult to see Bush was pushing Moon's marriage program.

[blm]

13. kick for Bush's Moonie Marriage Program

.

[salin]

17. I have never understood... how the Moonie connection

to the major fundie power brokers (falwell and robertson) is never fully trumpeted ...

Certainly their followers would be disturbed by Moon (do they even remember who Moon is?)... Moon says Christ failed and that HE, Moon, is the Messiah. If that isn't sacreligeous, I don't know what is?

[blm]

18. And recently Moon convinced 135 ministers to get rid of their crosses

and replace them with crowns representing Moon's crowning as the new Messiah. Not much media attention.

The GOP claims that Democrats are trying to get rid of Jesus, and the media gives them plenty of airtime.

[salin]

19. I remember his call for churches to do this... but 135 did?

any link - could be useful to pass on at appropriate times. Thanks.

[blm]

20. try gorenfeld's site

he always has the latest dirt on Moon.

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/07/campaign-to-put-cross-in-dumpster.html

[salin]

22. thanks for the referal!

[robbedvoter]

21. Like PNAC, Moon's name will not be known until he wholy owns us

Until such a moment, people will burry their heads in the sand and "work harder' for non-existent elections or throw their energies in the DNC-DLC epic battle.
By the time Moon will return to the collective consciousness, you'd better refer to him as The Heavenly Father.

[blm]

26. You're right. We have to start attacking the very foundations of GOP power

and attacking his false religiosity by exposing his REAL alliance with RevMoon is a great start.

[rumpel]

23. and this is supposed to be a free society? these people are dangerous and

as far as Moon goes, his organization is labeled as a cult and not religious, for example in Japan, as I recall from when I lived there.

[blm]

27. No kidding, but here the evangelical leaders are in the wallet WITH Moon.

.

[robbedvoter]

25. Kick

[barbaraann]

30. List of 1000 Moonie front organizations.

http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies/front.htm

[Al-CIAda]

31. Conservative Christian Republican asks: Are "Paid For" Christians Hypocrit

A Conservative Christian Republican asks: Are "Paid For" Christians Hypocrites in how they Vote?
by Karl W. B. Schwarz
(Friday 12 November 2004)
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"Would Jesus lie to the world to justify an attack on another nation, the killing of now over 100,000 Iraqis? No, certainly not, but that is what George W. Bush did and then lied to get the Christian vote."
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I am an ecumenical Christian that believes that one of the most important things that God requires of me is the use of discernment. In that I mean, I am required to pay attention, use critical thinking to see things as they are, not as someone tells me to believe they are. The Bible tells me to “recognize them by their fruits” and when those fruits are evil the person behind them is evil too.
I do not blindly accept what George W. Bush or Cheney say to me or anyone else for that matter. I do not blindly accept what Bill O’Reilly, or Sean Hannity or a plethora of other talking heads say to me via their media outlets. I listen, I weigh, I research deeper and decide on facts.

<snip>

I see many Christians that blindly follow what their pastor tells them to do, even when that pastor might be dead wrong or the counsel seriously tainted maybe even to the point of being “advice of commission of sin”. I think and as a Christian believe that such blind obedience is dangerous and sinful.
Hitler professed his Christianity to justify his actions, so need I say more that not all that use the claim are worthy of using it? I did not support or vote for Bush Cheney because I clearly see them as fascists and arrogance of power wrapped up in a false Christianity. I see glee in death and destruction as they and their friends plunder this world for billions and trillions in present and future monies.
I am also a Conservative Republican that did not back Bush Cheney 2004 and still do not back them for good cause. I am not a fascist and I clearly see Bush Cheney as fascists that will tell you any lie to get you to buy off on their agenda. I see lies veiling unmitigated greed on a scale that is colossal and unprecedented in United States history.

<snip>

Maybe if Christians would take the time to understand the correlation between “drug smuggling, drug trafficking, and US government backed mortgages and money laundering using such government bonds” they would not vote so blindly next time. If they would wake up to the sheer sleaze that is our government and the greedy hogs that are plundering us all, maybe next time they would focus on issues that could put all of us either into the poor house, or dead, or a subjugated conquered nation.
If you ask most Conservative or Christian Americans if George W. Bush is “pro-military”, they will answer yes, of course he is; Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and even George Bush and their minister told them so. Everyone that has read the book I wrote, One-Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas, has come away with a very clear understanding that George W. Bush is just about the worst president in the history of the United States when it comes to our military and proper use of same.
I know Christians well enough to know that many of them wait for their pastors to guide and advise them on how they should vote. What are the “Christian issues” in a given election that they should pay attention to and their vote be directed in that way as “the Christian thing to do?”
When the blind leads the blind, or the naïve leads the naïve, or the corrupt is advising the naïve, it is very easy to wind up headed in the wrong direction.

<snip>

Are Your Tax Dollars Funding Pat Robertson?
Taking a closer look at Operation Blessing International
“Lynn cited televangelist, Pat Robertson's comments on the 700 Club that an angry God had allowed the 9/11 terrorist attacks to succeed in retribution against a corrupt American society.What surprised many commentators at the time was that much of the criticism of the Bush initiative was coming from the religious right itself, including Pat Robertson. Early this year, Robertson denounced the Bush proposal, warning that the program is a "Pandora's Box" that could make legitimate religious charities dependent on government and that the government would end up financing "cults that brainwash" prospective adherents. He went on to tell his 700 Club television audience that the groups getting such funding "will begin to be nurtured, if I can use that term, on federal money, and then they can't get off of it." He added, "It'll be like a narcotic; they can't then free themselves later on."All the more surprising then, that among the very first organizations to be funded by the Bush administration's new program is Operation Blessing International, a Virginia Beach charity created by Robertson. This group is to receive $500,000 in the first wave of grants to be distributed under the faith-based initiative. The award to Operation Blessing is one of 25 announced on October 3rd by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. Aside from the irony involved in Robertson's own organization applying for and then accepting such "addictive" government funding, one needs to take a closer look at the finances of Operation Blessing International.”
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Now, imagine what you just read. Pat Robertson comes out condemning Bush and the 9-11 attacks as being “on a sinful nation” and then turns around, applies for the federal money he defines as “addictive”, accepts it, and then advises Christians to go out and vote for Bush on the abortion and gay marriage issues. I wonder if it has occurred to Pat to condemn the rampant corruption, greed, killing, empire building, deceit, fiscal irresponsibility, Corporatization of our government and fascism that has taken hold of our government and our nation?
As far as I am concerned, Pat Robertson’s counsel was bought and paid for, subject to impeachment on that issue alone, and I did not listen to him at all. I was paying attention to matters that are undermining this nation from within and without and none of them have anything whatsoever to do with abortion or gay marriage. They have to do with evil, corruption, greed, and fascism, and this nation acting in a manner that is most Un-Godly all the way up to George W. Bush.

Long artilce but worth it IMO-
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/11295