Sun Myung Moon gets 'faith-based' grant to promote King holiday.(Martin Luther King)

Church & State | March 1, 2006 | Copyright

The Bush administration has turned to an unusual source to promote the idea of public service as a way to honor the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King: the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in December gave an $80,000 grant to Service for Peace, an organization based in Bridgeport, Conn., that is a front group for Moon. The grant was given, a CNCS press release stated, to support service projects in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

Service for Peace does ...

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