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1/13/2004

Thanks, Michelangelo!

The New York Press's Michelangelo Signorile has written a column following up on Rev. Moon's "gay purge" speech that I wrote about. Other remarks by the Washington Times publisher on the subject:

Similar wisdom is readily available at Tparents.org or Unification.net. That latter archive is maintained daily by follower Damian Anderson (who also posted the "purge" speech to both Usenet and his mailing list.)

But whenever Moon is taken to task for the extremism in his speeches -- not by the regular media, of course -- there's a familliar defense. He's often raving about crushing individualism, tearing down the Christian cross, and controlling Washington, D.C. But defenders argue that these thoughts are translated in the heat of the moment, the transcribers having become dizzy in all the Holy Ghost Party excitement, and that the text is thus only reliable in the original Korean. This doesn't make a whit of sense, of course. Otherwise Anderson wouldn't be sending this stuff as "a source of daily upliftment and inspiration to all who read them," nor would other Unificationist sites link to the speeches as text that is divinely inspired.

"Can you imagine lesbians and homosexuals?" Moon muses. "Do you think they are smiling when they take off their clothes? All their smiles are false." C'mon, don't you find this inspiring?

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-- Moon spokesman the Rev. Phil Schanker

"Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation." -- Moon in 1987

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