Richard L. Rubenstein - Unification Church

Unification Church

Rubenstein was a defender of the Unification Church and served on its Advisory Council, as well as on the board of directors of the church-owned Washington Times newspaper. In the 1990s he served as president of the University of Bridgeport which was then affiliated with the church. Rubenstein said about the church's founder Sun Myung Moon:

"I especially appreciated Rev. Moon’s commitment to the fight against Communism. From his own first-hand, personal experience and out of his religious convictions, he understood how tragic a political and social blight that movement had been. I had been in East and West Berlin the week the Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961 and had visited communist Poland in 1965. Unfortunately, many of my liberal academic colleagues did not understand the full nature of the threat as did Rev. Moon. I was impressed with the sophistication of Rev. Moon’s anti-communism. He understood communism’s evil, but he also stood ready to meet with communist leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung in the hope of changing or moderating their views."