Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: More Parents Day

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7/28/2006

More Parents Day

From Daddytypes:

I don't really care one way or the other if one of this year's Parents of The Year, Nabil and Nargues Khalil, is a convicted arsonist.

What most interests me is how the revelation exposes the total self-serving BS PR scam that such "awards" represent. The Khalils were chosen as Parents of The Year by the Parent's Day Council, which is sponsored by the American Family Coalition, a political organization of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church.

The South Carolina director of the PDC, a master of understatement named Tim Murphy, described the selection process to The Sun News as "pretty informal": a nomination from a friend, a lunch meeting, a call to the Khalil's pastor, and that's it. They beat the four other couples in the running, and got a dinner, a plaque, and--and here's the whole point of the award from the organizers' standpoint--letters of congratulation from politicians, including GW Bush.

Parents of the year return honor after crimes revealed

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-- Ana Marie Cox ("Wonkette," Time.com Washington editor)

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-- New York Times editorial on the Crown of Peace scandal

"I am happy that our work is being challenged and improved in consistency, openness and coordination, by the accountability your spotlight demands. I am not talking about simply removing stuff from websites..."
-- Moon spokesman the Rev. Phil Schanker

"Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation." -- Moon in 1987

"A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy."
-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)