Countercult ministries often concern themselves with religious sects that consider themselves Christian, but hold beliefs thought to contradict the Bible, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Unification church, Christian Science, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

As Martin's definition suggests, the countercult ministries concentrate on non-traditional groups that claim to be Christian, so chief targets have been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science and the Unification Church, but also smaller groups like the Swedenborgian Church

Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church ( many of whose members were targets of deprogramming ) issued this statement in 1983:

* Deprogramming Article in Unification Church sponsored wiki-encyclopedia.

Rachel White Scheuering writes that, when SEPP began, it was affiliated with the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a think tank run by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

Moonie is a pejorative term sometimes used to refer to members of the Unification Church.

Church members have used the word " Moonie ", including Sun Myung Moon, President of the Unification Theological Seminary David Kim, and Moon's aide Bo Hi Pak.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Unification Church of the United States undertook an extensive public relations campaign against the use of the word by the news media, including hiring civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy to equate it with the word " nigger ".

The word " Moonie " is derived from the name of Sun Myung Moon, the founder and leader of the Unification Church.

The 2002 edition of The World Book Dictionary does not note a negative connotation, defining it simply as: " a follower of Sun Myung Moon "; nor does the 1999 edition of the Webster's II New College Dictionary, which defines it as " a member of the Unification Church established and headed by Sun Myung Moon.

The Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan describes it as a colloquial term to refer to a member of the Unification Church.

It became prevalent and was used both by critics of the Unification Church, as well as by church members themselves.

The word " Moonie " used within the Unification Church itself and by church members in public as a self-designation.

Defense counsel for Sun Myung Moon instead asserted use of the word in the jury selection process was necessary to identify the Unification Church and to question jurors about possible prejudice.

" Judge Gerard L. Goettel instructed the jury that the case involved the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, and his followers, whom the judge stated were " sometimes referred to as Moonies.

In 1984, The Washington Post noted: " Members of the Unification Church resent references to them as ' Moonies '", and quoted one church member who said " Even in quotation marks, it's derogatory ".

In 1985, the president of the Unification Church of the United States, Mose Durst, asserted there was a positive change in perception of the church after Moon's trial and his conviction on federal tax violations and conspiracy: " In one year, we moved from being a pariah to being part of the mainstream.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

" The Washington Post reported that " Unification Church members are being advised no longer to accept the designation of ' Moonie ,' and to declare any such nomenclature as indicative of a prejudiced view of the church.

" In 1989 the Chicago Tribune was picketed after referring to members of the Unification Church as Moonies.

Unification Church official Michael Jenkins ( who later became president of the Unification Church of the United States ) commented in 1989 on his views of why the Unification Church was shifting its public stance regarding use of the word: " Why, after so many years, should we now be taking such a stand to eliminate the term ' Moonie?

In the 1990s, the Unification Church hired Dr. Abernathy as a spokesperson to protest the news media's use of the term " Moonies ", which they compared with the word " Nigger ".

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

In the late 1930s, Grigulevich was sent to Spain to monitor the activities of the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ), during the course of the civil war in that country.

The rights of the consignee under an air waybill are regulated by the Warsaw Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, 1929 and the Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air 1999 and the relevant state laws ( which may be one law chosen as the proper law by the parties, or any combination of laws representing the seller, buyer, consignor, and carrier.

Abernathy was also the vice president of the Unification Church-affiliated American Freedom Coalition, and served on boards of directors for two other related organizations.

Abernathy also served as vice president of the Unification Church-affiliated group American Freedom Coalition, and served on two Unification Church boards of directors.

" In 1992 the Unification Church-affiliated organization Professors World Peace Academy asserted use of the word " Moonie " was akin to that of the word " nigger ".

Unification Church member Kristopher Esplin told Reuters what is normally done if the word is seen in media sources: " If it's printed in newspapers, we will respond, write to the editor, that sort of thing.

" In the same book, Anson Shupe, a sociologist known for his studies of religious issues, and David Bromley, a sociologist who has written extensively on new religious movements, also use the word Moonies to refer to members of the Unification Church.

* Dialogue with the Moonies Article by a Christian theologian which praises the character of Unification Church members, yet uses the word Moonie.

Unification on ground terms is just the ground word problem ; because the ground word problem is undecidable, so is unification.

Religious scholar Anson Shupe notes that " on many occasions " he heard " David Kim, President of the Unification Theological Seminary, refer to ' Moonie theology ,' the ' Moonie lifestyle ,' and so forth matter-of-factly ".

" In 1990, a position paper sent from the Unification Church to The Fresno Bee said: " We will fight gratuitous use of the ' Moonie ' or ' cult ' pejoratives.

In a 1996 article for The Independent about a talk former Prime Minister Edward Heath gave at a Unification Church sponsored conference, Andrew Brown commented: " The term ' Moonie ' has entered the language as meaning a brainwashed, bright-eyed zombie.

" In 2010 National Public Radio reported that young members of the Unification Church " bristle at the term ' Moonie '", while USA Today reported that " the folks who follow Rev.

British sociologist Eileen Barker titled her 1984 book, which was based on seven years of first-person study of members of the Unification Church in the United States and Great Britain and has been influential in the field of the sociology of religion, The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing ?.

Reuters, in its handbook for journalists, says: "' Moonie ' is a pejorative term for members of the Unification Church.

* An essay on the use of the term Moonie by a Unification Church member

Moonie, a family name in the United Kingdom, is used as a nickname for members of the Unification Church and is sometimes considered offensive in that use although not usually in others.

In her 1984 book The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing ?, based on close to seven years of study of Unification Church members ( informally called " Moonies ") in the United Kingdom and the United States.

In 1977 / 1978, Pak testified before the Fraser Committee in its investigation of the Unification Church, commenting: " I am a proud Korean – a proud Moonie – and a dedicated anti-Communist and I intend to remain so the rest of my life.