Over on Salon, which requires you to either subscribe or watch commercials, there's an article that's worth doing one of those two things to read…that is, if you want to be amazed that this kind of thing goes on in our Congress. Here's an excerpt…
On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin — the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him "none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."
Somewhere between 12 and 81 U.S. Congressfolks (from both parties) attended this ceremony to honor a man who, though a convicted felon with rabidly anti-gay and anti-Jewish views, claims to be the Second Coming and to be destined to bring about world peace.
To repeat: This took place in the halls of Congress. With many of our elected representatives in attendance. And as far as I can tell, though some of those Congresspeople deny they were there or claim they didn't realize the nature of the event, it is not in dispute that this occurred.
If you have enough money, you can get away with just about anything in this world. But you knew that already.