News of the coronation ceremony was broken by the politics website, Politics1. Which has been following up with additional facts, triggering today's story in Salon, entitled "Hail to the Moon King."

Sun Myung Moon is the billionaire head of the "Unification Church" cult, and a convicted tax felon. After his Congressional coronoation ceremony, Moon proclaimed himself "humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."

The 84 year-old Moon is a controversial figure, to say the least, and an arch far-right-winger who is the benefactor of conservative foundations like the American Family Coalition. In the 1980s we served time for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Moon preaches that gays are "dung-eating dogs," Jews brought on the Holocaust by betraying Jesus, and the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls "Godism" -- with him in charge.

Moon is also the publisher behind the right-wing mouthpiece "newspaper" the Washington Times, which, according to Salon, was the only news organization to cover the coronation ceremony before the story recently broke on the Internet.

The Chicago Tribune is the only mainstream newspaper to pick up the story, in a column by Eric Zorn. Zorn spoke to an unapologetic Rep. Davis, and concluded that:

"[T]he most disturbing thing is that, to this day, Davis expresses no regret about assisting in the pageantry designed to burnish and inflate the reputation of a man who, divine or not, wants to abolish Western-style democracy, compares gay people to dung-eating dogs, and in exhorting Jews to convert and follow him, told them: 'You have to repent. Jesus was the King of Israel. Through the principle of indemnity, Hitler killed 6 million Jews.'"

The big question is, what are two of our electred representatives doing crowning a convicted felon and cult leader as "humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."

Do Rep. Hastert and Rep. Davis support and share Moon's belief that "he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin, as Moon told the gathered Congressmen at the coronation ceremony?

And what about the tax dollars spent on the ceremony and the fancy crown?

It's time to ask Denny Hastert and Danny Davis if they're with Moon when he says that "here will be a purge on God’s orders ... Gays will be eliminated ... It will be greater than the communist purge, but at God’s orders."

Call their offices, send them letters and e-mails:
Rep. Danny Davis
3333 West Arthington Street
Chicago, Illinois 60624
Phone: 773/533-7520 Fax: 773/533-7530

1222 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202/225-5006 Fax: 202/225-5641
http://www.house.gov/davis/
Rep. Dennis Hastert
D.C. Office
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-2976 Fax: 202-225-0697

Batavia District Office
27 North River Street
Batavia, IL 60510
Phone: 630-406-1114 Fax: 630-406-1808