Religious Bigotry

From RAGEPATH Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
  • 1991: Trump drew an official rebuke from the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, after using the threat he would sell Mar-a-Lago to the church as leverage in a dispute over with local officials about Trump’s plan to convert the mansion into a club. “Officials of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church say Donald Trump has resorted to ‘Moonie-bashing.’ An unnamed Trump associate reportedly had said the cash-strapped developer might sell Mar-a-Largo, his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, to Moon's followers unless Palm Beach officials give him permission to convert the property to a housing subdivision. Church leader James Baughman complained: ‘Someone is using these scary images that have been propagated about my religion for the past two decades to scare people into doing what they want.’” (Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1991)
    • 1991: Trump drew an official rebuke from the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, after using the threat he would sell Mar-a-Lago to the church as leverage in a dispute over with local officials about Trump’s plan to convert the mansion into a club. “The president of the Unification Church of America demanded apologies yesterday from Donald J. Trump and two newspapers over what he called false, racist and inflammatory reports that the church was seeking to buy the the developer's Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago. Saying that the church founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon ‘has absolutely no interest in this property,’ the minister, Dr. James A. Baughman, attacked reports in The Palm Beach Daily News on Thursday and The New York Post on Friday that quoted ‘a Trump associate’ saying that the famous home built by Marjorie Meriweather Post, the cereal heiress, might be sold to the church if the city did not let Mr. Trump subdivide it. […] Calling the report ‘a deliberate fabrication,’ Dr. Baughman said at a news conference in the church's midtown Manhattan headquarters: ‘To use the Unification Church as a scare tactic in an attempt to compel Palm Beach officials to submit to the will of Mr. Trump and his associates is morally reprehensible.’” (New York Times, May 26, 1991)