Here’s a rough collection of video footage highlighting Moon’s 1996 roadshow with George H.W. Bush. The occasion: celebrating the rebirth of Moon’s Unification Church under a new name — the the “Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.” (Cross-posted at Talk2action.) Some is from the BBC documentary “Sun Myung Moon, Emperor of the Universe”; some is gathered from Moon’s Web sites.

What I left out is that the distinguished paid speakers seen here — from Ralph Reed to Gary Bauer — apparently sat through Moon’s too-hot-for-TV sex sermon “In Search Of The Origins Of The Universe” — full text available here.

When we are born as a man or woman, who is the owner of our sexual organ? Actually the owner of a husband’s sexual organ is his wife, and the owner of a wife’s sexual organ is her husband. We did not know that the sexual organ is owned by the opposite sex. This is a simple truth. We cannot deny this truth. Even after history progresses for thousands of years, this truth will not change.

Every man thinks his sexual organ belongs to himself, and each woman thinks her sexual organ is her own. That is why the world is perishing. Everyone is mistaken concerning ownership of the sexual organs. We all think that love is absolute, eternal, and dream-like, but when we come to clearly understand that the ownership of eternal love lies with the opposite sex, the world will not remain in its present condition. There are numerous scholars and Ph.D.s, but none of them have thought about this.