Role in The Unification Church
Unification Church members believe that Han and Moon's wedding established a "holy marriage" which Jesus had failed to establish. They also consider it established a holiday called "True Parents' Day," as well as what Unification Church members refer to as the "True Family". It is also believed by them to be the beginning of a new "Completed Testament Age," and to have fulfilled the prophesied Marriage of the Lamb in the Revelation of John.
Han and Moon are together believed to be the "new messiahs" by Unification Church members. Within Unification Church theology, the Moons are regarded as the "True Parents" of humanity and are addressed by its followers as the "True Father" and "True Mother". Church members have also referred to Han as "the Bride of Christ", and the "perfect woman". She is seen within the movement as the "Mother of humankind, the final chosen of God". Han and Moon are also seen as the "exemplars of the God-centered existence" by Unification Church members. In Unification Church services members bow down to Han and Moon when they are present and to pictures of them when they are not.
In 1962, Moon and Han founded the Little Angels Children’s Folk Ballet of Korea, a girls Korean folk ballet company meant to promote a positive perception of South Korea. In 1984, Han spoke at a Unification Church sponsored academic conference in Washington, D.C. to a crowd of 240 which included professors from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, University of Michigan and the Sorbonne in Paris.
In 1993 U.S. Senator Trent Lott supported the bill "True Parents Day" in the U.S. Senate and in 1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a bill into law called "Parents Day"; children are to honor their parents on this day. This showed the relationship of the Unification Church to the Republican Party in the United States, according to news media. In 1993, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch introduced Han to a crowd at Capitol Hill; she stated at the event that she and Moon are "the first True Parents". Moon was in the audience watching her speech, along with members of the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
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