Question...

[Peter Frank]

Who has bought most of the independent Black churches in America?


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[Peter Frank]

1. Answer - Rev. Sun Myung Moon, of the Unification Church...

Wake up call -- The very heart of the civil right's movement is under attack.

A spiritual hoodwinking

By Tony Norman

One of the reasons the civil rights movement has come to a screeching halt is the low quality and gullibility of far too many African-American leaders, politicians and preachers.

I'm not going to do a "Cosby" and blame urban preachers as a class for the loss of the black church's moral authority in recent decades, but, damn, can't one black minister step to the plate and denounce the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, of the Unification Church, as the wack job he clearly is?

There will never be a shortage of black preachers mopping their brows and calling down God's wrath on gay marriage and other "abominations." But I think I would tear my eyes out in shock at the first sign of a jeremiad by a black preacher about the pernicious influence of the Unification Church on congregations in urban America.

My June 22 column that touched briefly on Moon's infamous "Tear Down the Cross" tour was too subtle for its own good. What I should've reported, but didn't, was that Unification Church representatives have been "dialoguing" with black religious leaders in 300 churches nationwide about the efficacy of removing crosses from urban sanctuary walls and replacing them with crowns. The Rev. Moon's symbol of spiritual and temporal authority on Earth just happens to be a crown, but that's just a coincidence, I'm sure.<snip>

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04188/342412.stm

[Peter Frank]

2. I see that I'll have to repost with a better subject line... n/t