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Article: Moon Backs Farrakhan `Million Family' March In Nation's Capital.(Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church)(Minister Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam)(Brief Article)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Two controversial religious leaders formed an unlikely partnership in October to promote a "Million Family March" in Washington, D.C.
Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a Korean evangelist who founded the Unification Church, co-sponsored the Oct. 16 march, a follow-up to Farrakhan's wildly successful Million Man March in 1995.
Religious Right researcher Frederick Clarkson explored the evolving relationship between Farrakhan and Moon in a recent edition of Salon, an online magazine. Clarkson noted that the two "aging demagogues" met in 1997 when Farrakhan helped Moon officiate at a mass wedding of couples at ...