Washington Times Editor Files EEOC Complaint

[MountainLaurel]

The former editorial page editor of the Washington Times has filed a discrimination complaint against the paper, saying he was "coerced" into attending a Unification Church religious ceremony that culminated in a mass wedding conducted by the church's leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Richard Miniter, who was also vice president of opinion, made the claim in a filing Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that also disclosed he was fired last month. He said in an interview that he "was made to feel there was no choice" but to attend the ceremony if he wanted to keep his job, and that executives "gave me examples of people whose careers at the Times had grown after they converted" to the Unification Church. A Times spokesman said the paper would not comment.

Miniter, an Episcopalian who tried to avoid attending by saying he had to worship at his own church, said he found the religious weekend in New York last December to be "creepy" and that the Times had invited him to other such events. He said that Moon spoke for about an hour, that ceremonies were conducted in which water was poured from small urns into larger ones, and that Moon married 20 to 30 couples.

The Times paid for his travel, Miniter said, and he and other company executives, including church member Thomas P. McDevitt, then the Times' president and publisher, stayed at the church-owned New Yorker Hotel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111703325.html

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1. This article is a keeper for bizarre things going on in America. What do you call

a person who is not really an immigrant, but who claims he is the God of Christianity and has this kind of agenda for influence in this country and the world. This is the right wing.

Washington Post - Washington Times - both with right wing favoritism, both enablers. One is strictly cororate-baron driven. The other is politically driven to advance religion.

Does Rev. Moon really own the New Yorker hotel? I haven't heard this before.

I hope this person finds a job.

How many entities in this country have been and are being overtaken by a religious sect?