Mooning the Senate

Update :The article quoted here was from a headline news service and they don't archive. It's gone but not forgotten. Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times covered it well at The International Herald Tribune titled "The talk of Washington: Reverend Moon's Senate 'coronation'"

John Gorenfeld, a blogger at Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon has a good write-up including, but not limited to, audio, video, and transcripts.
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Mooning the Senate

Members of Congress are recognizing a human being as a diety in a government office building. Rev. Sun Myung Moon was coronated as "King of Peace" or "Messiah" in a Senate office building. What happened to the separation of church and state that was written into our Constitution ?

The Ten Commandments are being removed from public buildings yet we can have a public religious coronation in the Senate building.

Prayers have been taken out of public schools while of the owner of the Washington Times, who has the audacity to claim to be the Messiah, is coronated in the Senate building.

Recently, I read a report about a choir on tour of Washington, D.C. being corrected by the Park Police for singing "God Bless America" at the Lincoln Memorial after being inspired by its' grandeur(choirs do that), while Senators and Congressmen sing the praises of a cult figure inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building with other members of Congress looking on.

Just to clarify where I stand on this, I am not a Christian supporter. I am a supporter of equal protection under the law and this "coronation" appears to be a double standard.

The money quote :
"Use of a Senate office building requires a senator's approval. But organizers said they did not know which senator reserved the space for the ceremony..."
---Larry Everett
From : CyberNewsCast
[edited for length]

"Religious Leaders Defend Moon's Capitol Hill Coronation As 'King of Peace'
By Sarah Junk
CNSNews.com Correspondent
July 01, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - When the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his wife were crowned the "King and Queen of Peace" on March 23rd -- inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Members of Congress looking on -- few news outlets took notice.
But in the months since Moon's March 23rd "coronation" as Messiah, a growing number of people are questioning the appropriateness of allowing a "coronation" to take place inside a government building.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Jewish, Muslim and Christian representatives from the organization that sponsored Moon's coronation unapologetically defended the ceremony, its location, and Moon's Messiah declaration.
"It was the spirit world that said he was the Messiah," said Archbishop George A. Stallings, Jr., pastor of an independent African-American Catholic congregation. Moon, founder of the Unification Church, was merely repeating the message, said Stallings.
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According to a recent Washington Post description of the event, more than a dozen lawmakers were there, and one of them - Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) -- "wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding an ornate crown that was placed on Moon's head."
[snip]
Members of Congress who attended Moon's "coronation" are now trying to distance themselves from Moon - whose organization also owns the Washington Times newspaper."

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