Be Prepared to Choke

You'll need to either watch an ad or get a subscription to read this article on Salon.com, but this following sentence, lifted from that article, ought to make you want to:

one night in March, members of Congress hosted a crowning ritual for an ex-convict and multibillionaire who dressed up in maroon robes and declared himself the Second Coming.

The night was March 23, the ex-con was Rev. Sun Myung Moon (convicted of tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice, which Moon's website characterizes as "trumped up"), and the party occurred at the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Salon article characterizes the event as a "coronation" based on the pictures of the couple in robes and crowns, but Moon is quoted on other sites as referring to it as more akin to an Eagle Scout banquet. Whatever you choose to call it should not make the event's presence in the Dirksen Senate Office Building any better. More background on Moon's background from the Salon article:

Moon preaches that...the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls "Godism" -- with him in charge.

The ellipses replace some beliefs that are so offensive to certain groups that they would pull any meaningful discussion away from the fact that a U.S. Senate office building was used to host a coronation ceremony/awards banquet for a man who wants to scrap the Constitution so he can run the country.

Did I mention that this took place in a U.S. Senate office building? That would be an edifice that you pay for with your tax dollars. Check this Website to see if you should be doubly upset that one of your congresspersons was there and is now trying to weasel out of admitting it.