From Bill Berkowitz, on the Republican representative making headlines for privatizing wilderness:

In an unrelated matter, at an event in San Francisco at the San Francisco Hilton on September 29, titled “God’s Ideal family: The Model for World Peace,” sponsored by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church (now called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification), an article about the event noted that the group received several letters of “commendation” including one from Rep. Pombo.

The organization boasted that it had “secured” the letters “in one week, and also in the face of the great deal of controversy and criticism over the last year after the Crown of Peace ceremony on Capitol Hill.” The article went on to claim that things had changed, “and the majority of leaders have come to understand that Father is a peace king, a spiritual leader that does not seek any secular power or authority but simply wants to give the inspiration from God that allows people to build true families and true nations.”