Randall Terry
Terry is a social conservative Democrat from New York City who plans on running an expensive ad for his campaign during the upcoming Super Bowl. He has repeatedly run as a Republican and never received much support, so he's switched teams in order to oust incumbent president Barack Obama. As "The voice of resistance", Terry insists on focusing on a pro-life and anti-GLBT agenda. He also has written extensively about Muslims as being violent terrorists who are against human rights and freedoms.
After attempting several times to locate information (on his own campaign website) concerning his views on other issues, such as job creation, immigration, or foreign policy, I gave up looking. There is no information on his two websites other than the issues of abortion, Muslims in general, and homosexuality. Apparently for Randall Terry, these are the biggest issues America is grappling with today. Others, such as myself, do not agree. He is certainly a man on a mission, and that mission appears to be purely religious in nature.
On Terry's campaign website, www.terryforpresident.com, his slogan reads "A Democratic primary for President - to bring America face to face with aborted babies". The site also features many photos and videos of supposedly aborted babies. This is truly gruesome stuff. There is a link to his personal writings concerning religion, abortion, and homosexuality. To sum it up: Christians are infallible, while Muslims, abortions, and the GLBT community are all evil.
Now let's delve into Terry's private life. He founded Operation Rescue, a pro-life organization which is famous for blockading entrances to abortion clinics. Terry is adamant that he believes abortion is murder and should be a capitol offence. Terry also founded the Society for Truth and Justice and conducted a program called Operation Witness. Terry has preached that Islam is a religion composed of "murderers" and "terrorists.
Though he is against divorce, and even published a book about the evils of men who leave their wives for younger women, Terry did just that to his wife of 19 years. Terry divorced her in order to be with his 25 year old church assistant, also a radical anti-abortion activist. Together they had one daughter, and later adopted three more children from a woman in prison. One of these children, a boy named Jamiel, announced that he is gay in a piece for Out Magazine in 2004. This enraged his father, who wrote his own piece in response, saying that Jamiel has shamed and embarrassed the family and prostituted the family name (since Jamiel reportedly was paid by the magazine for the interview). Subsequently Terry has all but disowned his son.
Some words from the man himself, during an interview with beliefnet.com:
"There are three options when you find out a family member is homosexual. One is accept them and their lifestyle as if it's normal. Two is to reject them and sever your relationship. Three is to love them unconditionally, but to tell them you do not accept their behavior as normal, and to tell them the truth. If I love my son, I can't say to him, 'Hey, you're committing suicide on the installment plan. This is a great lifestyle.' I have to be honest with him. Take out the word homosexuality and put in alcoholism or put in drug addiction. Would you tell a drug addict, 'I accept you. This is your choice, this is your life and I will stand by you'? The average death age of a male homosexual is 42 years old because of disease, because of suicide, because of alcoholism, because of drugs, because of violence. It's just not a good world. It's a self-abusive, self-destructive sexual addiction."
I am personally offended by everything I've read about and by this man. His son, Jamiel, describes him as charming, but I just don't see it. No matter how charismatic you are, your words speak loudest and Terry's words are just plain disgusting. How can someone be so filled with hate? The president is supposed to be a sort of figurehead for the nation, and I do not like the idea of Randall Terry representing us to the world.
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