Religious leader Moon plans mass wedding
On Saturday, November 29, 1997, controversial religious figurehead, alleged cult leader and self-proclaimed Messiah Sun Myung Moon, will officiate a mass wedding of about 30,000 couples at RFK stadium in Washington D.C. The RFK event is planned as part of a simultaneous worldwide wedding of 3.6 million couples via video link. A former Moon leader and others say they will protest the event.
Religious leader Moon plans mass wedding
by Steven Hassan
WHAT: On Saturday, November 29, 1997 controversial religious figurehead, alleged cult leader and self-proclaimed Messiah Sun Myung Moon, is to officiate over a mass wedding of some 30,000 couples at RFK stadium in Washington D.C. The RFK event is planned as part of a simultaneous worldwide wedding of 3.6 million couples via video link. I will be outside protesting along with many others.
WHO: Moon is a 77-year old Korean billionaire and convicted felon who served 13 months in federal prison for income tax evasion and conspiracy in the mid-1980s. Moon owns the Washington Times newspaper, Insight Magazine, The University of Bridgeport (CT) and The New Yorker Hotel. His empire was part of a 1977-78 congressional investigation which looked at Korean CIA activities in the United States. See the web site addresses at the end of the article for a list of Moon’s businesses.
Moon¹s stated ambitions include the establishment of a one-world government run as an automatic theocracy by Moon and his leaders. His vision of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth includes the absorption of all the world religions into Unificationism as well as the abolishment of all languages except Korean. Members do a ritual pledge service every Sunday morning, bowing before an altar with Moons picture on it and promising to fight for the Fatherland (Korea).
WHY ITS IMPORTANT: The Moonies are seeking legitimacy! Unlike past mass weddings done by Moon, the requirements for participation in the RFK event have been reduced from full committed devotion (in which Moon picks the spouses, who often wait years to consummate their wedding) to allowing anyone who wants to renew their marriage vows. The Rev. Al Sharpton recently had his vows renewed and was given the power to renew others marriage vows. Whitney Houston is reportedly receiving over $1 million to sing at the RFK event.
In Japan, Moon¹s organization has been the subject of the largest consumer fraud investigation in its history. Recent court decisions upheld a 37.6 million yen decision to pay two women coerced into donating their assets to the Unification Church. Thousands of additional cases are expected to follow.
While Moon professes Family Values as a philosophical theme, his own eldest son (by this wife) Hyo Jin is being divorced by Nansook Moon because of his alleged use of cocaine, physical and emotional abuse, repeated DWI (driving while intoxicated) arrests and similar activities.
Steven Hassan is a former Moon leader (1974-76) and has spent 21 years warning the public about this dangerous cult leader. He is a licensed therapist, author of the book Combatting Cult Mind Control, and is a specialist helping people involved in hundreds of destructive cult groups.
Web sites for a more complete list of Moon’s businesses:
Contact: Steven Hassan, M.Ed. LMHC
Phone: (617) 628-9918 Fax: (617) 628-8153
E-mail: shassan@freedomofmind.com
Web: www.freedomofmind.com
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