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...Reverend Moon had requested a bench trial from Judge Gerard L. Goettel, well aware that a survey commissioned by his lawyers found that 76.4 percent of those questioned reacted unfavorably to his name. But the government, which usually prefers bench trials in tax cases, insisted on a jury trial, purportedly so that Moon could not "blame any adverse result in this case on religious or racial bigotry...
...find its bald expression distasteful, as the National Council of Churches disapproves of religions which exalt documents or individuals whose genesis occured after Christ's. On this point Nicholas M. Buscovich, Director of the Unification Church of Massachusetts, says simply, "There was a three-year period when, in essence, Reverend Moon was the church...
...subsequent outcry about totalitarian executive-judicial cabals was repeated and intensified when Reverend Moon protested his treatment before the Hatch subcommittee on June 26--this time charges of racism were working for, not against, the religious community...
There are several views about the cause of the perceived crisis. Unification Church officials agree that there is a government conspiracy to "get Reverend Moon." Dr. Lahaye in his testimony expressed concern that "secularist forces within the government [are] moving steadily and in an intruding way upon these [religious] freedoms." Professor Rice says he sees no active conspiracy, and believes the cause of the government's extended pursuit of Moon may have been "government stupidity...
Meanwhile, though the Ad Hoe Committee's plan to join Reverend Moon in jail has proved unfeasible for reasons having to do with common sense, they have held demonstrations supporting Moon in New York and New Jersey, and they are reportedly considering, demonstrating outside the prison walls...