Sheesh. Get a room already.
Posted on 11/05/2004 5:46:33 AM PST by Sparticle
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Some 2,500 traditionally dressed brides from all over the world stood next to their blue-suited grooms in a packed stadium Saturday morning, as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon blessed their marriages, many of which he arranged himself. But singer Whitney Houston, who was to be a headliner at Moon's "Blessing '97" event, was a no-show, ... Promoters of the event released a statement saying Houston was "unable to perform due to a sudden illness." [...] Many other well-known people also canceled appearances they were to make ... after it became widely known the events were tied to the church. The festival culminated with Saturday's wedding ceremony. CNNfn's Lou Dobbs, former Christian Coalition Executive Director Ralph Reed, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the daughter of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat all canceled, most attributing their decision to scheduling conflicts. [....] Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke. .... Many of the couples joined Saturday did not know each other previously, although many of them expressed enthusiasm for their arranged match, a common practice for members of the Unification Church. Fifteen years ago, Moon, a Korean evangelist, conducted a similar mass ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He married 360,000 couples in South Korea in 1995. ... Satellite hookups allowed more than 3.6 million other couples in 55 countries to witness the ceremony and take part in the day's festivities. The controversial Moon, whose critics liken the Unification Church to a cult, served a federal prison term in the United States for tax evasion. [.........]"
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Where does Moon find these people?
Whitney was due to sing...
'I will always love you, and you, and you, and you, and you and you, and you too, and you, and you...'
What am I missing here?
Sheesh. Get a room already.
Why say it's a 'scheduling conflict?' Why not say 'I don't want to be associated with the freakin' MOONIES?'
Marriage is between A man and A woman, not 360,000 of each who've never even seen each other before that. A travesty of marriage.
LOL!
This is what you do to solidify familial, financial, and political power when the country first started.
Many other industrialized nations do the same thing - the fetish of sleeping around to find the perfect mate for right now is American. Works wonders doesn't it.
You might want to look outside your own homo agenda and Leftist American culture to understand what marriage is before you trash it.
Rev. Moon claims that 36 US presidents (speaking from "spirit world") have proclaimed him "Lord of the Second Advent, the Messiah, the Savior and True Parent of Humanity. Are you Moonies going to save us all?
I don't know who he is, I don't know what his deal is.
However, if he has followers, you have no right to besmirch their religion any more than our Jewish, Catholic or other folks of faith.
Free Republic does not tolerate it.
Too many cowards afraid to offend this crazy SOB. He has far too much money and political influence for anyone's good. He could just as soon turn his paper into a liberal mouthpiece. In this case, it isn't the messsage, but the messenger that is frightening. He is a travesty of religion, politics, and every other feature of cultural life.
No besmirching religion, got it,
Please accept my apologies
That is fine.
Our Founding Fathers and early Patriots of this country had arranged marriages just to survive - what Moon does is vastly different from what early Americans did, and I see red when people link our early Christian Patriots with whatever Moon does. This is the Leftist talking point and this is their attempt to strip our religious freedoms and create a secular EU.
I have little tolerance for it.
frickin moonies destroyed a family I lived near back in the 80's. It took them years to retrieve their son and daughter and get them back to their own lives.
It's a cult.
I'll besmirch cults all I want.
Shame that Whitney Houston traded in her talent to be such a drug-addled loon. (Her publicist at least shook enough sense into her to get her to cancel this one.)
"However, if he has followers, you have no right to besmirch their religion any more than our Jewish, Catholic or other folks of faith."
Not to besmirch anybody, but this guy is a nutjob. How many 'followers' must one have to be called a relegion instead of a whacko cult? BTW, this article is from '97 (donning flame-proof pj's)
Do what you want.
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