As reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

It’ll be interesting to see what new editor John Solomon, who says he’s committed to a mainstream Times, does with the cranky hard-right paper. He’s already taken impressive action to ditch the use of scare quotes around the word “gay,” bringing Sun Myung Moon’s paper into the 1980s. And the Confederates may have been cleaned out of the newsroom. But what about the cult leader in the attic?

It remains to be seen whether Solomon will tolerate a boss who shows up at company events, waving his hands and demanding that his staff put their energies into stamping out “free sex” (as in an infamous 1997 CSPAN-televised dinner party) or the Christian cross (more recently.)

Video coming soon.

Also, I wonder whether his Times will continue the policy of printing the occasional plug for a Reverend Moon rally as news?

The Washington Times

November 23, 2003, Sunday, Final Edition

U.N. office on interfaith dialogue eyed

BYLINE: By David R. Sands, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

SECTION: WORLD; Pg. A07

LENGTH: 702 words

The Philippines has proposed a new office at the United Nations to promote understanding and cooperation among the world’s leading religions.
A draft resolution calls on the United Nations to establish an “open-ended working group to examine the contributions of interreligious dialogue and cooperation in strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to promote international peace and harmony.”

The resolution, introduced earlier this month, recommends that the working group explore a permanent “mechanism” at the United Nations to promote interfaith cooperation.

[...]

A State Department official, speaking on background, said the Bush administration regards it as “premature” to take a formal position while the language of the draft resolution is being debated. A private U.S. analysis, forwarded to the Philippine government, cautioned that an interfaith agency could “dilute” the push for human rights by emphasizing cultural differences, not minimizing them.

[...]

The proposal closely tracks a proposal by the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace, an organization founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church. Rev. Moon is the founder of News World Communications Inc., publishers of The Washington Times.

“Serious consideration should be given to forming a religious assembly or council of religious representatives within the structure of the United Nations,” Rev. Moon said in an April 2000 address.

That proposal calls for U.N. member states to send to New York a second “religious ambassador,” who would serve on an “interfaith senate” within the U.N. governing structure.