2018.09.13. 17:57
FFWPU, led by Hak Ja Han, files lawsuit against her gun-toting Pennsylvania minister son, Sean Hyung Jin Moon.
By Steve Esack (with corrections by HWDYKYM)
The Morning Call July 31, 2018 Harrisburg
A Pennsylvania minister — who glorifies the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in religious services and political commentary shows — has been sued by a larger international church led by his mother.
The copyright lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. Middle District Court in Harrisburg by HSA-UWC (Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity) or Unification Church, also known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and Family Federation for a Heavenly USA.
The lawsuit claims the Rev. Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon has hijacked the HSA-UWC’s decades-old, trademarked “Twelves Gates Mark” symbol to espouse his “gun-centered theology and political agenda repugnant to central tenets of HSA-UWC’s theology.”
The lawsuit claims the symbol has been used for half a century by the Unification Church, which was started in 1954 by Moon’s late father, a Korean evangelist, self-proclaimed messiah and businessman. The church received a U.S. patent for the symbol in 2009, three years before the patriarch died.
The lawsuit claims Sean Moon stole the Mark for his offshoot church, World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church, in New Foundland, Wayne County. Sean Moon’s symbol uses the same radiating sun design but paints it gold and surrounds it with weaponry.
The filing asks a judge to order Sean Moon to stop using the symbol because his gun-based religious and political beliefs run counter to the main church’s teachings. Those competing belief systems — and symbols — are leading to public confusion and harming the reputation of the main Unification Church and its leaders, the suit says.
“Most notably, while the theological textbook of Unification Church, known as the Divine Principle, prophesies that the ‘rod of iron’ as discussed in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible signifies the ‘Word of God,’ Sanctuary Church teaches that ‘rod of iron’ is embodied by an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle or equivalent weapon,” the lawsuit states. “As a result, Sanctuary Church theology is gun-centered and a perversion of the beliefs of the Unification Church, and by extension HSA-UWC.”
Timothy Elder, Sanctuary’s director of world ministries, declined comment.
“The lawsuit was just filed and we are still looking at it,” said Elder, who is church spokesman.
The lawsuit is the latest legal fight between the heirs of the religious dynasty started by the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon, whose followers have been known as Moonies.
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon started his church in [Seoul]. Critics considered it a cult as it grew into a worldwide conservative faith. Its political influence and business ventures included conservative media holdings, such as The Washington Times, and firearms companies.
In the 1980s, Moon went to federal prison for tax evasion but still was well-received on Capitol Hill.
Sun Myung Moon installed Sean Moon, one of thirteen children, as his successor in 2009, the year the Twelves Gates Mark was patented. The elder Moon died in 2012 and his widow, Hak Ja Han, dethroned her son and took over, leading to several lawsuits in other states and countries.
In 2013, Sean Moon then started his own church in the Poconos, near a firearms factory started by one of his brothers, Kook Jin “Justin” Moon.
Sean Moon’s church of about 200 congregants operated in relative anonymity until 2017. That is when Sean Moon exploded onto the state’s and nation’s political and religious scenes.
It started when Sean Moon, wearing a golden crown of bullets and sitting before an AR-15, interviewed Paul Mango, a Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, on a YouTube channel. During the interview, Mango nodded in agreement when Moon claimed public schools are bastions of liberalism where teachers indoctrinate children into “homosexual” and “transgender” political agendas, and asserted colleges preach Sharia law.
Democrats blasted Mango, who did not back down from his support of Moon. Mango eventually lost the GOP primary to Scott Wagner.
Then Moon got international media exposure when he announced his church would conduct a religious ceremony to bless AR-15s. The ceremony was announced days after a gunman used an AR-15 to kill 17 students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
In July, the Democratic Party criticized Wagner for making a campaign stop at Justin Moon’s gun factory and having his minister brother, Sean, in attendance.
The lawsuit claims Rev. Sean Moon’s media attention, accompanied by pictures of the pilfered Twelves Gates Mark symbol, “continues to be the subject of media fascination and curiosity. These recent events have drawn vast publicity, which has greatly increased the actual and likely confusion engendered by Sanctuary Church’s activities and cast plaintiff’s name and Mark into disrepute well beyond Sanctuary Church’s prior activities.
A court date has not been set.
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04:00 
형진씨를 상대로 소송을 한다면 시한폭탄 이요.
이젠 감춰진 은막의 사건 까지도 모두 쏟아져 나올터인데
더이상 소송은 내려 놔야 할것입니다.
어느 어머니가 아들을 향해 소송을 저렇듯 허구헌날 법정을 드나 들어야 합니까..?
정말 통일교인 이라는게 수치스럽기 이를데 없소이다.
이젠 감춰진 은막의 사건 까지도 모두 쏟아져 나올터인데
더이상 소송은 내려 놔야 할것입니다.
어느 어머니가 아들을 향해 소송을 저렇듯 허구헌날 법정을 드나 들어야 합니까..?
정말 통일교인 이라는게 수치스럽기 이를데 없소이다.
18.09.14. 13:51
통일교가 말하는 참가정이란
패륜과 소송으로 얽히고 섥힌 관계
이혼과 불륜으로 이뤄진 참사랑의 가정
무엇을 보아 그들을 따라 천국에 가리라 믿는가.
패륜과 소송으로 얽히고 섥힌 관계
이혼과 불륜으로 이뤄진 참사랑의 가정
무엇을 보아 그들을 따라 천국에 가리라 믿는가.
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