Religious Activists Used Senate Office Building
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Sen. John W. Warner’s office acknowledged that the Virginia Republican arranged for religious activists to use a Senate office building in March for a ceremony in which the Rev. Sun Myung Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings had helped Hitler and Stalin be “reborn as new persons.”
The senator did not attend the coronation-like ceremony or realize it would involve Moon, a controversial figure who spent 18 months in prison in the 1980s for tax fraud, Warner spokesman John Ullyot said.
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