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church disputes "suicide" story, calls the fall an accident
In defense, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter 1991 Carlton Sherwood, an employee of Moon's paper, the [[Washington Times]], wrote ''Inquisition''. Sherwood describes Moon as a victim of religious persecution and racial bigotry, a portrayal which church investigators J. Isamu Yamamoto and Paul Carden strongly disagree with.<ref>[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0133a.html Christian Research Journal, Fall 1992, p. 32]</ref>
In 1998, Nansook Hong, the former wife of the Moon's oldest son, Hyo Jin Moon, published a crushing memoir, ''In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family'' Boston: <ref>Little, Brown & Company, 1998.</ref> describing her husband's increasingly constant drug use, rampant adultery and physical violence during the turbulent fourteen years of their marriage. In addition, one of Moon's other sons apparently committed suicide in 1999, by jumping falling from a 17th story balcony in Reno, [[Nevada]].<ref>TIME Magazine, ''Life with the Moons: A conversation with Nansook Hong, former daughter-in-law of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, October 13, 1998</ref>.
As Moon promoted himself as a model of family values and taught that he and his wife are the True Parents of the new family, born without original sin, this revelation of iniquity within Moon's family has seriously impugned Moon's credibility. A perfect family is necessary for the fulfillment of Moon's theology, the establishment of the kingdom of God, for which purpose Moon has declared he was ordained as Messiah.<ref>http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Moons</ref><ref>Don Lattin, ''Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives, p. 2003</ref><ref>http://www.nypost.com/081798/gossip/pagesix.htm</ref>
