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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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23 Apr 2004 09:40:58 PM |
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Christian hate monger's Son Says He Is Gay |
From The Associated Press, 4/22/04:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-operation-rescue-gay-son,0,6449513..story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Christian Activist's Son Says He Is Gay
CHARLOTTE, N.C. --
The son of Christian activist Randall Terry, known for his strident
opposition to abortion and homosexuality, says he is gay.
In an article in the May issue of Out magazine -- for which he was
paid $2,500 -- Jamiel Terry, 24, says he first realized he was gay
seven years ago, when a male friend with whom he'd been intimate asked
if they were gay or bisexual.
"I didn't know how to respond," he writes.
"I mean, we had been having sex for ages, but I'd always believed I
couldn't be gay: I was the son of Randall Terry, a major leader of the
Christian right's anti-abortion movement and now a leader in the fight
against marriage for same-sex couples."
Before the Out article was released, Randall Terry published his own
essay, "My prodigal son, the homosexual," on several Internet sites,
including RandallTerry.com, writing his son "sold out our family's
privacy and private discussions for cold cash."
The younger Terry told The Washington Post his father drove from
Florida to Charlotte, where the son lives, to speak with him about the
first-person magazine story -- and to ask why he had not told the
elder Terry about it.
"I told him: 'Dad, how was I supposed to tell you? Look who you are,'"
Jamiel Terry said in Thursday's Post.
He also denied his father's accusations that Out's editors solicited
the article and put words in his mouth.
The younger Terry said he sought out the magazine.
But Jamiel Terry said it was true, as his father had claimed, that
he'd been convicted of drunken driving, written bad checks and
committed other frauds.
"Dad doesn't mess around with Tomahawks, he sends in the nuclear
warheads," he said.
"My father's first and foremost aim is to protect himself."
Randall Terry founded Operation Rescue in 1986.
The group applied civil rights-era strategies of civil disobedience to
the fight against legalized abortion.
He also has spoken out against gay marriage.
Jamiel Terry is the son of a woman whom the elder Terry talked out of
having an abortion.
The Terrys took in Jamiel and his two sisters as foster children, and
then adopted Jamiel and his younger sister in 1994.
The children's mother has since died.
"Tragically, by the time we got him as a foster child, he (Jamiel) had
already learned a lifestyle of deceit," Randall Terry writes.
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"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want
you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our
goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by
God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want
pluralism."
--Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue, The News-Sentinel, Fort
Wayne, Indiana, 8-16-93
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and that is lies." -- Senior military spokesman Mark Kimmitt, Nazi
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| User: "Robert Matthews" |
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| Title: Re: Christian hate monger's Son Says He Is Gay |
24 Apr 2004 03:25:54 AM |
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In article <108jkp18idbre43@corp.supernews.com>,
(Fredric L. Rice) wrote:
From The Associated Press, 4/22/04:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-operation-rescue-gay-son,0
,6449513..story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
The son of Christian activist Randall Terry, known for his strident
opposition to abortion and homosexuality, says he is gay.
....
"I told him: 'Dad, how was I supposed to tell you? Look who you are,'"
Jamiel Terry said in Thursday's Post.
He also denied his father's accusations that Out's editors solicited
the article and put words in his mouth.
The younger Terry said he sought out the magazine.
But Jamiel Terry said it was true, as his father had claimed, that
he'd been convicted of drunken driving, written bad checks and
committed other frauds.
"Dad doesn't mess around with Tomahawks, he sends in the nuclear
warheads," he said.
"My father's first and foremost aim is to protect himself."
See, here's the best part: Randall Terry then writes an article for
World Nut Daily in which he first says
"Probably the most painful part for me as a dad is that my son
prostituted my name for $5,000: He sold out our family's privacy and
private discussions for cold cash. Can you imagine a family member doing
that to you?"
and then proceeds to say things about his son like
"He was recently arrested for DWI; he is knowingly writing bad checks on
a closed bank account; he dropped out of school; he doesn't have a job
(and refuses to get one); he bounces from house to house living off
other people; he's racked-up huge bills for friends and family that he
cannot pay; he's been taken to court by former friends to get him to pay
money he owed them; he's lied to his friends, telling them his "famous
dad" was going to send him money to pay for his debts (I get calls or
e-mails from college friends looking for money); he has "borrowed" money
from countless numbers of my friends; he has a trail of wrecked
friendships and family relationships because of deceit, money fraud and
crossed boundaries a mirror image of the home he was in from birth to
8."
thus being clearly incapable of seeing the irony. "My son sold out my
family's privacy, and that's bad because he's a fag, so I'm going to
sell out his privacy, but that's okay because I'm a Christian." He's
just evil.
Robert Matthews
a.a. #1801
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| User: "Paul Duca" |
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| Title: Re: Christian hate monger's Son Says He Is Gay |
24 Apr 2004 04:59:55 PM |
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Robert Matthews wrote:
In article <108jkp18idbre43@corp.supernews.com>,
FredR@SkepticTank.REMOVE.ORG (Fredric L. Rice) wrote:
From The Associated Press, 4/22/04:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-operation-rescue-gay-son,0
,6449513..story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
The son of Christian activist Randall Terry, known for his strident
opposition to abortion and homosexuality, says he is gay.
...
"I told him: 'Dad, how was I supposed to tell you? Look who you are,'"
Jamiel Terry said in Thursday's Post.
He also denied his father's accusations that Out's editors solicited
the article and put words in his mouth.
The younger Terry said he sought out the magazine.
But Jamiel Terry said it was true, as his father had claimed, that
he'd been convicted of drunken driving, written bad checks and
committed other frauds.
"Dad doesn't mess around with Tomahawks, he sends in the nuclear
warheads," he said.
"My father's first and foremost aim is to protect himself."
See, here's the best part: Randall Terry then writes an article for
World Nut Daily in which he first says
"Probably the most painful part for me as a dad is that my son
prostituted my name for $5,000: He sold out our family's privacy and
private discussions for cold cash. Can you imagine a family member doing
that to you?"
and then proceeds to say things about his son like
"He was recently arrested for DWI; he is knowingly writing bad checks on
a closed bank account; he dropped out of school; he doesn't have a job
(and refuses to get one); he bounces from house to house living off
other people; he's racked-up huge bills for friends and family that he
cannot pay; he's been taken to court by former friends to get him to pay
money he owed them; he's lied to his friends, telling them his "famous
dad" was going to send him money to pay for his debts (I get calls or
e-mails from college friends looking for money); he has "borrowed" money
from countless numbers of my friends; he has a trail of wrecked
friendships and family relationships because of deceit, money fraud and
crossed boundaries ? a mirror image of the home he was in from birth to
8."
thus being clearly incapable of seeing the irony. "My son sold out my
family's privacy, and that's bad because he's a fag, so I'm going to
sell out his privacy, but that's okay because I'm a Christian." He's
just evil.
Of course, this undermines Terry's entire position of
everything....after all, if his processed instant God couldn't keep his kid towing
the Bible line he prieaches, why should anyone else do what he says, so God will
help them?
Paul
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| User: "Paul Duca" |
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| Title: Re: Christian hate monger's Son Says He Is Gay |
24 Apr 2004 05:00:12 PM |
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Robert Matthews wrote:
In article <108jkp18idbre43@corp.supernews.com>,
FredR@SkepticTank.REMOVE.ORG (Fredric L. Rice) wrote:
From The Associated Press, 4/22/04:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-operation-rescue-gay-son,0
,6449513..story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
The son of Christian activist Randall Terry, known for his strident
opposition to abortion and homosexuality, says he is gay.
...
"I told him: 'Dad, how was I supposed to tell you? Look who you are,'"
Jamiel Terry said in Thursday's Post.
He also denied his father's accusations that Out's editors solicited
the article and put words in his mouth.
The younger Terry said he sought out the magazine.
But Jamiel Terry said it was true, as his father had claimed, that
he'd been convicted of drunken driving, written bad checks and
committed other frauds.
"Dad doesn't mess around with Tomahawks, he sends in the nuclear
warheads," he said.
"My father's first and foremost aim is to protect himself."
See, here's the best part: Randall Terry then writes an article for
World Nut Daily in which he first says
"Probably the most painful part for me as a dad is that my son
prostituted my name for $5,000: He sold out our family's privacy and
private discussions for cold cash. Can you imagine a family member doing
that to you?"
and then proceeds to say things about his son like
"He was recently arrested for DWI; he is knowingly writing bad checks on
a closed bank account; he dropped out of school; he doesn't have a job
(and refuses to get one); he bounces from house to house living off
other people; he's racked-up huge bills for friends and family that he
cannot pay; he's been taken to court by former friends to get him to pay
money he owed them; he's lied to his friends, telling them his "famous
dad" was going to send him money to pay for his debts (I get calls or
e-mails from college friends looking for money); he has "borrowed" money
from countless numbers of my friends; he has a trail of wrecked
friendships and family relationships because of deceit, money fraud and
crossed boundaries ? a mirror image of the home he was in from birth to
8."
thus being clearly incapable of seeing the irony. "My son sold out my
family's privacy, and that's bad because he's a fag, so I'm going to
sell out his privacy, but that's okay because I'm a Christian." He's
just evil.
Of course, this undermines Terry's entire position of
everything....after all, if his processed instant God couldn't keep his kid towing
the Bible line he prieaches, why should anyone else do what he says, so God will
help them?
Paul
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| User: "Carol Lee Smith" |
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| Title: Re: Christian hate monger's Son Says He Is Gay |
24 Apr 2004 05:22:05 PM |
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Robert Matthews wrote:
thus being clearly incapable of seeing the irony. "My son sold out my
family's privacy, and that's bad because he's a fag, so I'm going to
sell out his privacy, but that's okay because I'm a Christian." He's
just evil.
Astute observation.
I doubt Terry would be able to look at it from his son's point of view.
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