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Dark Day for Justice |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Jeremiah Gutman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,798 Words, 17,096 Characters |
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INQUISITION
The Persecution and Prosecution
of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Carlton Sherwood
Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991
705 pp., $29.95
The publisher tells us in his preface to Carlton Sherwood's Inquisition that "[t]his is a book about religious and racial bigotry." It is, but it is also a book about perversion of justice and about that facet of the paranoid style of American politics and social attitudes that harasses, punishes, beats, imprisons, and occasionally lynches and sets fire to the homes of the strange, the new, the dissident, the different, the nonconforming.
There is a sinister, common thread linking the arsonists who burned out the family in Florida because hemophiliac youngsters had been infected with the AIDS virus with the goons who ...
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...spite the pretentious pseudoscholarly footnote apparatus--is an important addition to the literature of religious liberty and the function and malfunction of the federal judicial system as protector and infringer of constitutional rights. Inquisition should be considered for inclusion on the reading lists of high school and college courses in civics, political science, and constitutional law.
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