Editing Ralph Abernathy (section)

===Unification Church===
In the 1980s, the [[Unification Church]] hired Abernathy as a [[spokesperson]] to protest the news media's use of the term "[[Moonie]]s", which they compared with the word "[[nigger]]".<ref name="gorenfeld">{{Cite book |last=Gorenfeld |first=John |title=Bad Moon Rising |publisher=PoliPointPress |year=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/badmoonrisinghow00gore/page/96 96] |isbn=978-0-9794822-3-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/badmoonrisinghow00gore/page/96 }}</ref> Abernathy also served as vice president of the Unification Church–affiliated group [[American Freedom Coalition]],<ref name="leigh">{{Cite news |last=Leigh |first=Andrew |date=October 15, 1989 |title=Inside Moon's Washington—The private side of public relations improving the image, looking for clout |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=B1}}</ref><ref name="nix">{{cite news |last=Nix |first=Shann |date=August 10, 1989 |title=Church seeks new image |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |page=B3}}</ref> and served on two Unification Church [[boards of directors]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Unification Church funnels millions to U.S. conservatives |work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |date=December 20, 1987 |page=4A |publisher=The Dallas Morning News Company}}</ref>