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Article: Moon's flock benefits from 'faith-based' government funding.(People & Events)
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- Church & State
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- November 1, 2004
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds are going, to followers of the Rev. Sub Myung Moon through the "faith-based" initiative, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Oct. 3.
Members of Moon's Unification Church have accepted the tax aid to run marriage improvement programs and abstinence-based sex education programs for teenagers. Moon officials insist the programs do not teach Unification theology, but critics say there is little public accountability in them.
The Chronicle noted, "At least four longtime operatives of Moon's Unification Church are on the federal payroll or getting government grants in the administration's Healthy Marriage ...