Moon over DC

When I moved to DC several years ago, one of the first fun facts I learned was that the ultra-conservative Washington Times was run by the Moonies. Odd, yes, but I never gave it much thought.

But now I find out that Bush's new head of VISTA, David Caprara, is one of Reverend Moon's top political operatives. And that Moon been cultivating deep ties with political conservatives and fundamentalist Christians for years. And that Moon has some rather scary things to say about theocracy, sex, the Holocaust, and race.

But all these facts leave two central questions unanswered: Why do conservatives continue to actively partner with the Unification Church? And why isn't this connection brought to light more often?