So, you have a phony newspaper, the Moonie Washington Times, in the process of imploding (see here), and now you are seeing the people who have been kicked to the curb going after the paper.

Case in point, former Washington Times editorial editor and ” vice president of opinion” (whatever the f^%$ that is) Richard Miniter has filed a religious discrimination claim, alleging that he was “coerced” into attending a religious retreat:

The former editorial page editor of the Washington Times has filed a discrimination complaint against the paper, saying he was “coerced” into attending a Unification Church religious ceremony that culminated in a mass wedding conducted by the church’s leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Richard Miniter, who was also vice president of opinion, made the claim in a filing Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that also disclosed he was fired last month. He said in an interview that he “was made to feel there was no choice” but to attend the ceremony if he wanted to keep his job, and that executives “gave me examples of people whose careers at the Times had grown after they converted” to the Unification Church. A Times spokesman said the paper would not comment.

The paper has been a money loser for its entire existence, with its deficits being financed through subsidies from the church, and he’s surprised that doing obeisance at Sun Myung Moon’s feet is a part of the job?

This is particularly galling for someone who was their editorial page editor, since their editorial page was arguably the worst in the nation, though, unlike the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, it does not suffer in comparison to their news gathering operation, because it is equally laughable.

It should be noted that at least a part of the right-wing nutjob community is supporting Miniter in this, as Larry Klayman, late of the whack-job Judicial Watch is his attorney, which implies that there some Scaife or Olin money behind this lawsuit.