WAR:What do the Moonies and Jerry Falwell have in common?

   Mr. Sun Myung Moon, founder and leader of the Unification Church,
was release from prison on August 20, 1985, with a five month early out
for good behavior. He was convicted of tax evasion in May 1982 because
he failed to report some $162,000 in personal income. His appeals
failed and he was sentence to 18 months in prison beginning July 20,
1984.

   Immediately after his release, he was taken to a dinner given in his
honor at the Washington, D.C. Shoreham Hotel and was presented with a
four- foot trophy, all sponsored by the Coalition for Religious
Freedom. There were some 1,600 people in attendance, mostly Moonies,
but also present were some "Christian" ministers and Idaho Senator
Deitor Bayer. Rev. Joseph Lowery, a Methodist minister and head of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, charged that there was racial
discrimination involved and that the churches were accountable to God
only. We of the Colossian Fellowship agree that churches and their
leaders are accountable to God, but the personal incomes from
corporations and private enterprises are accountable to the government
( Rom.13:1-2;Matt.22:17-21).

   Rev. Jerry Falwell has been in the news over his supportive
statements concerning South Africa (which supports apartheid--racial
discrimination, but this is not all that he has been up to.

   Falwell is a leading member of the Coalition for Religious Freedom.
Right after Mr. Moon's release, Rev. Falwell said, "I think the
president should pardon Rev. (Moon is not a trained or ordained
minister of God) Moon...I personally do not think he was guilty of tax
evasion..." Why does the Rev. Jerry Falwell support Mr. Sun Myung Moon,
whose followers hail him as the return of christ?

   Had enough? What do Jerry Falwell and the Mormon Church have in
common? They should have nothing in common, but this is not the truth.
Falwell actively supports the Freemen Institute, which is the political
arm of the Mormon Church. Rev. Falwell believes that, because the
Mormons believe the same as he does on major issues (abortion,
homosexuality, prayer in school), he can use them and their voting
power. So he pushes the Institute and their teachers upon the
unsuspecting Christian populace. Soon it will be more confusing because
The Freemen Institute will be changing their name to the National
Center for Constitutional Studies.

   Mr. Sun Myung Moon? The Mormon church? Who will Rev. Jerry Falwell
embrace next? Would Jesus Christ have joined with the "great deceiver"
to achieve anything?

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