Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: Bush appointee intones: Soon America will recognize our "true parent role models"

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4/05/2004

Bush appointee intones: Soon America will recognize our "true parent role models"

Ominously, David Caprara -- head of the War on Poverty program VISTA -- has this to say:

Many Americans are gradually becoming aware that our nation has a new day of commemoration called Parents' Day. [...] inspired by your commitment, Reverend Moon, to the ideal of establishing true parent role models.

I found this statement in a 2002 "tribute book" of people paying tribute to the Washington Times owner and political extremist. On page 17 of this PDF [here's a JPG link], two followers of Sun Myung Moon in the U.S. government fess up to what's long been a suspicion...

...that a "Parent's Day" signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1994 (having been introduced by Trent Lott) was a sneaky way of paying tribue to Moon, the self-described "true parent" of humanity. The co-author of this piece, David Caprara -- the head of Moon's American Family Coalition -- was named by Bush to direct AmeriCorps's VISTA program. I don't believe he's cut ties with the AFC while in this capacity. (The other author is a Moon-following state representative in Arizona.)

Here's a 1995 Washington City Paper article laying out the goods on "Parents' Day" as a holiday for this cheerfully Taliban-ish mogul.

Oh, and Dan Quayle sends Moon birthday greetings on another page in the PDF (page numbered 120 in the book), but that's par for the course.

Thought: Can we do better for parental role models than a convicted felon who rips off old ladies in Japan?

UPDATE: MW provides a quote from the Moonster that says it all:

Through True Mother we reached the American Congress and the United Nations through True Mother's speaking tour. We also declared True Parents Day to the world. Men and women in the American Congress didn't know what they were doing, but as you know Congress passed the resolution of Parents Day. -- 1997

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