Stanley Kurtz, mainstreaming the wackos

Washington Post, June 23, 2004, Page A01:

More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in which Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be “reborn as new persons.”

At the March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding an ornate crown that was placed on Moon’s head. The Korean-born businessman and religious leader then delivered a long speech saying he was “sent to Earth . . . to save the world’s six billion people. . . . Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”

Not a rare occurance.

Stanley Kurtz makes sure that the clown show keeps rolling with this observation about the public’s concern about far-right theocrats:

We’ve heard all the criticisms of the language and political inclination of religious conservatives. Will we now hear indignation against The Rev. Bob Edgar, a former Democratic congressman and general secretary of the liberal National Council of Churches? Edgar strongly favors religious politicking–except by conservative Christians. And Edgar believes that the desire of conservative Christians to have fewer activist judges means that: “This may be the darkest time in our history.” I await mainstream media outrage over Edgar’s dangerous quest for a liberal religious theocracy. Note also that Ostling dismisses the link between the tiny fringe movement of dominionists and mainstream evangelicals.

Note also that nobody but Stanley Kurtz has ever made this “link”.