Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: Gays and the Unification Church: a more nuanced view?

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6/03/2004

Gays and the Unification Church: a more nuanced view?

Former member Graham Lester posts in the comments section (links mine):

Moon's oldest son told us that there was a time when he wanted to take some of his guns and go around murdering gay people (he had a particular hatred for them). My understanding is that Moon persuaded his son that this was not the right way to go about things.

Moon has referred to gays as "trash" and one of the church elders talked of imprisoning all of them, but I don't think that Moon himself would actually endorse having them all killed.

Strangely enough there are many gay people in the Unification Church, but most of them are not practising, and those who do practise consider it a sin.

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