owner of Wash. Times said: "After the act of love,"

[donsu]

http://alternet.org/mediaculture/34072/

Rev. Moon's Conjugal Visitations

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"After the act of love," read the instructions from the Rev. Moon's conservative Family Federation, "both spouses should wipe their sexual areas with the Holy Handkerchief. Hang the handkerchief to dry naturally and keep them eternally. They must be kept individually labeled and should never be laundered and mixed up."

Maybe the best explanation of our widespread ignorance of the Washington Times owner's sex rites is liberal squeamishness. For those of you who suckled on secular humanism and feminist tracts (which Moon calls Satanic, by the way), these prescriptions from God might seem as off-putting as a Castro Street postcard storefront to Dr. James Dobson.

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Rev. Moon, whose Washington Times is a crown jewel of the conservative media Death Star, offers the essential lessons. He's the last man most Americans would associate with Republican power circles, but is in his own secretive way as important a figure in the Christian Right as Jerry Falwell, who's still in business thanks to a $3.5 million bailout from Moon in 1995, or Tim LaHaye of the Council For National Policy, who took money to serve on the board of a group rehabilitating Moon's image, and once wrote a letter addressing Moon as "the Master."

Just how big is Moon's standing in the Right? The "Republican Noise Machine" is a mighty edifice built with $3 billion in gifts from various right-wing philanthropists. Moon's gift of the Washington Times to the conservative cause alone places him in the club as a charter member; the paper owes its existence to a staggering figure of over $2,000,000,000 since 1982 in donations in Moon's mystery money.
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Rev. Moon the master of Kool Aide

mods: where these lines came from is beyond me

[Rose Siding]

1. Well, duh. Who doesn't?

:silly:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I call it "the Holy Kleenex..."

:rofl:

[Rose Siding]

3. It's hard work

http://www.despardes.com.nyud.net:8090/Bangladesh/Snapshots/clothesline-0329_resize.jpg

[MsTryska]

4. wait what?

you're supposed to wipe your bits and pieces with the same filthy rag over and over again?

yeah - my hygiene doesn't allow me to be a religious whackjob apparently.

[TexasLawyer]

5. I've heard of the Holy Handgrenade

(of Antioch-- Monty Python) but the Holy Handkerchief? Cripes!

Then never laundered? I think over time the Holy Handkerchief would turn into the Holy Handgrenade.

[hlthe2b]

6. Off topic (though interesting article): why the lines through the post?

I see this often when people cut and past, I guess. At first I thought they meant to strike out some of the post--now I wonder if they meant to underline and their HTML language is sort of messed up? (Or is it just appearing that way to me?) I never see them go back and edit. Does it not appear striken through to everyone who sees the post? I find it very disconcerting, frankly, but have never bothered to ask before.

Anyone? What gives?

[dysfunctional press]

7. where the lines come from-

in the linked text, they have brackets instead of parentheses around the "s" after handkerchief- html reads that as "strike"- i.e. strike a line through the text- if you can edit your original post, and replace/remove the brackets around that s(or turn off html)- all will be well.

[walkon]

8. Why the lines?

From the article in the last paragraph is a reason for "abstinence only" sex ed. Also, since gays are to be exterminated, wouldn't marriage be a good way to find them when the time comes?