Rev. Moon and the conservative movement

"From South Korea to South America, Rev. Sun Myung Moon married tens of thousands of couples in the Unification Church's largest mass wedding in a decade and potentially the last for the 89-year-old leader. The spectacle comes as Moon, the church's controversial founder moves to hand day-to-day leadership over to three sons and a daughter, though the Rev. Moon Hyung-jin, the 30-year-old tapped to take over religious affairs, insists his father is healthy and remains in charge. . . . Critics say the weddings show the church operates like a cult, brainwashing adherents into turning their lives and salaries over to Moon. In the past, Moon routinely paired off couples, with many first meeting on their wedding day."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_mass_weddings

The conservative movement should be embarrassed that it allowed Rev. Moon to buy his way to respectability through his purchase of the conservative-leaning Washington Times (and his employment of many conservative opinion shapers by the Times).