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Article: Sun Myung Moon gets 'faith-based' grant to promote King holiday.(Martin Luther King)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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The Bush administration has turned to an unusual source to promote the idea of public service as a way to honor the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King: the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in December gave an $80,000 grant to Service for Peace, an organization based in Bridgeport, Conn., that is a front group for Moon. The grant was given, a CNCS press release stated, to support service projects in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
Service for Peace does not openly proclaim its ties to Moon. Its Web site (www.serviceforpeace.org) contains no references ...