Anti-Christian right (2)

I wrote recently about Dinesh D'Souza's appearance before the one group in America actively working to subvert Christianity: the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The very brave and devoted investigator John Gorenfeld writes in to tell me more about D'Souza and the organization before whom he appeared, and graciously gives me leave to share it with you:

I wrote to Dinesh D'Souza to ask what in heaven's name he was doing addressing the UPF, whose Bay Area event I had attended the week prior.

Here's how Gorenfeld describes that event:

The hosts persuaded a ballroom full of people to drink special packets of "Holy Juice" symbolizing the blood and body of Reverend Moon, provided in transparent plastic cups the size of dairy creamer at Denny's. I couldn't get a straight answer about what's in the Holy Juice.... On stage, Mrs. Moon described the creation of a "Peace Police Force," and much of the rhetoric involved replacing the existing United Nations with a second United Nations.

So what did D'Souza tell him? That "I don't know that much about Moon."

That's a big con. Points out Gorenfeld, in about 1985, when D'Souza was editor of the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review, "grappled with the issue in a chin-scratching piece titled 'Moon's Planet.' Having examined Moon's theology in close detail, the 1985 version of D'Souza reaches the conclusion it is deeply unsettling for conservatives to accept money from Moon when he gets out of prison, because of what he stands for."

Views expressed on this page are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Campaign for America's Future or Institute for America's Future