Reply #13: In 1989 U.S. News said the conservative movement was Moon-tied [View All]

[Cell Whitman]

have a bit of this at the blog.
http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/

No link to the article as I transcribed it. Note when the subject of how Moon is in the middle of the conservative movement - as this "conservative" movement was being molded - it was Reagan's 11th commandment providing Moon protection. I think Reagan's 11th, not to speak ill of a fellow Republican is the most evil empowering political tool ever devised. It helped Moon thrive...
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quoting:

U.S News and World Report March 27, 1989

Rev. Moon's Rising Political Influence
His empire is spending big money trying to win favor with conservatives.

More tolerance. Through this method of recruiting, the church has established a network of affiliated organizations and connections in almost every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation, the largest of the conservative think tanks and an important source of government personnel during the Reagan administration. Although Heritage officials deny it, the foundation has dramatically changed its policy toward the Unification Church. In the early 80's the foundation, wary of the church's aims, prohibited staff or fellows from being associated with Unification Church organizations or taking money from the church or church-financed institutions.

As the Washington Times has become the voice of capital conservatives, the Heritage Foundation has become far more tolerant of church ties. The foundation accepts the participation of Lichenstein and other senior fellows in church-funded enterprises and allows its staff members to go to church conferences.

The Unification Church's newfound influence has occasioned intense debate among conservatives. One group of worried young conservatives meets regularly in private to compare notes about the problem. But little of the debate has surfaced in public forums. "Most people are afraid to address the issue because they don't want to publicize the extent of the church's involvement," says Amy Moritz of the Conservative National Center for Public Policy Research.

Because almost all conservative organizations in Washington have some ties to the church, conservatives also fear repercussions if they expose the church's role. That happened when one organization, the Capital Research Center, published a newsletter last November warning of the church's attempt to create a "centralized world theocracy." One of its board members, who was also on the board of the International Security Council, resigned in protest, and conservatives charging that the paper was creating discord on the right, besieged the center with angry calls. "We got a very, very strong reaction -- almost as if we were the enemy -- because we raised the issue," says CRC Chairman Willa Johnson, a former president of the Heritage Foundation. (U.S.News Mar. 27, 1989)