You'll excuse me, Reverend Moon, if I don't use your handkerchief

The current Editor's Pick at Salon.com is a must read. Writer John Gorenfeld takes a hard look at one of the Bush Administration's biggest supporters, the Reverend S.M. Moon. The Administration has returned the favor, sending almost 1/2 million dollars to support a Moonie teen celibacy club in New Jersey. Not a bad return on Moon's investment in the Bush Sr. library.

Just how big of a barking freak is Moon? Check this out:

Then, according to the instructions attributed to the [Unification Church's] American Blessed Family Department, "after the act of love, both spouses should wipe their sexual areas with the Holy Handkerchief" --referring to the church-supplied washcloth -- which must "be kept individually labeled and should never be laundered or mixed up."

Are you supposed to use the same handkerchief over and over? -- because I'm anticipating a problem here. I wonder where Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Pruden keep theirs.

The article also reveals that Jerry Falwell and his "university" are the bought-and-sold tools of Moon.

In 1995, it came to light that a debt-ridden Jerry Falwell (who told Esquire in 1978 that Moon was "like the plague: he exploits boys and girls") had quietly accepted $3.5 million from Moon's Women's Federation for World Peace IWFWP) to bail out his Liberty University.

I think this is only the tip of the iceberg -- why hasn't any journalist written a whole book exposing this right-wing bigot and his ties to the right?