Ethics

D'Souza and Rev. Moon

By Ed Brayton

There's an interesting story about Dinesh D'Souza and Rev. Moon in John Gorenfeld's new book Bad Moon Rising. During Moon's stay in prison in the early 80s, the Unification Church began a massive PR campaign to resurrect his reputation, particularly among Christian churches and conservative leaders. Kits were sent out to thousands of churches, ministers and organizations that urged them to view Moon's imprisonment on tax evasion charges as an attack on religious freedom by secular humanists.

At the time, Dinesh D'Souza was a young scholar at the Heritage Foundation and he wrote an article for Policy Review, the house journal of the Foundation, about Moon and his involvement with so many prominent conservative leaders. He interviewed a large number of conservatives about Moon. The article was titled On Moon's Planet: The Theology and Politics of the Unification Church.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 26, 2008 (boomark / email).