{"id":2593,"date":"2004-06-16T05:49:01","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/16\/rev-moon-crowned-messiah-in-senate-office-building\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:54:22","slug":"rev-moon-crowned-messiah-in-senate-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/16\/rev-moon-crowned-messiah-in-senate-office-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Moon crowned Messiah in Senate office building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10794,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gadflyer.com\\\/articles\\\/?ArticleID=131&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260219062239\\\/http:\\\/\\\/gadflyer.com\\\/articles\\\/?ArticleID=131&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 08:54:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:20:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:20:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10795,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gorenfeld.net\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/05\\\/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gorenfeld.net\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/05\\\/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know what to say about this (aside from the obvious fact that it&#8217;s absolutely insane), but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/gadflyer.com\/articles\/?ArticleID=131\" title=\"Moon Over Washington\">the Rev.\u00a0Moon was crowned Messiah<\/a> last March.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah &#8212; with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building?<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  First, we&#8217;re shown a rabbi blowing a ram&#8217;s horn. Most Jews would hold off on this until the High Holy Days, but it probably counts if the Moshiach shows up in a federal office building at taxpayer expense. Then we see the man of the hour, Moon, chilling at a table at the Dirksen in a tuxedo, soaking all this up. He claps. He&#8217;s having a ball.<\/p>\n<p>  Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  But Section 9 of the Constitution forbids giving out titles of nobility, setting a certain tone that might have made the Congressional hosts shy about celebrating the coronation on their websites. They included conservatives, the traditional fans of Moon&#8217;s newspaper: Sen.\u00a0Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rep.\u00a0Curt Weldon (R-PA.), Rep.\u00a0Chris Cannon (R-Utah), Rep.\u00a0Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Republican strategy god Charlie Black, whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi&#8217;s Iraqi National Congress. But there were also liberal House Democrats like Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) and Davis. Rep.\u00a0Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) later told the Memphis Flyer that he&#8217;d been erroneously listed on the program, but had never heard of the event, which was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>  Rep.\u00a0Curt Weldon&#8217;s office tenaciously denied that the Congressman was there, before being provided by The Gadflyer with a photo depicting Weldon at the event, found on Moon&#8217;s website. &#8220;Apparently he was there, but we really had nothing to do with it,&#8221; press secretary Angela Sowa finally conceded.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some pictures of the crowning ceremony are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gorenfeld.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html\" title=\"I'm ___ and I approve this Messiah\">Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon?<\/a>, where John Gorenfield is tracking this story.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n<p>(via Rick)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;She Caught the Katy&#8221; by Blues Brothers, The from the album <em>Blues Brothers, The<\/em> (1980, 4:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah &#8211; with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,103],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}