By: Robin Murray-o'hair
Re: Ethics and Reagan's Pastor

ETHICS AND REAGAN'S PASTOR

School prayer proponents say that talking to god will make kids
behave. But it doesn't seem to have done a thing for Donn Moomaw,
the man who served as minister to President Reagan.

Moomaw served for decades as pastor of the Bel Air Presbyterian
Church and said the prayers at Reagan's presidential
inaugurations in 1981 and 1985. But in 1993, he suddenly quit as
pastor of his church. The reason why can out on Tuesday, March
14. In front of 1000 church members, an official of the
Presbytery of the Pacific read a court ruling in which Moomaw had
pled no contest to accusations of sexual harassment. According to
another church spokesman, Moomaw had sexual contact with five
women between 1983 and 1992. Now age 63, he has been suspended as
a Presbyterian minister until 1997.

Source: AP, 3/15/95