Randall Terry shocked by son's coming-out

Randall Terry, the notoriously militant antiabortion activist and staunch opponent of same-sex marriage, said he is in "a state of shock" following his son's coming-out in the May issue of Out magazine. Terry said his 24-year-old adopted son, Jamiel, first told him he is gay two years ago but that he is very upset about the first-person article in Out and the $5,000 payment Jamiel told him he received for writing it. Terry said he did not bar Jamiel from his home after learning of his homosexuality. But his son is not welcome there now, he says, "because he betrayed our family's privacy...and he could sell us out again. He knows he is going to get his 15 minutes of fame because he's the son of a high-profile Christian leader who has fought against homosexual marriage," added Terry, who led the antiabortion group Operation Rescue in the 1980s and is now a radio talk-show host in Florida.

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=12057&sd=04/14/04

...who these people are.

Where was Terry from originally? It wasn't FL was it?

and he has been proselytizing ever since. He hates everyone except the rw robots. All good things come to those who wait. I am sure his son is a good person whereas he is a mean spirited, ego maniac. Why don't these guys get regular jobs instead of living off gullible people. They get big bucks scaring people with the word of the lord.

...lives, which is exactly why they do it.

I imagine that a lot of these right wingers must loath themselves because they know they don't have enought talent, conviction or intelligence to do anything better with their lives than exploit the scared and confused.

Lon Mabon, who was Oregon's most notorious anti-gay agitator, "That man is a professional bigot. If he ever stopped lobbying and giving speeches, he's have to get a real job."

pig

When will these silly fundies realize it?

Newt Gingrich's sister, Dick Cheney's daughter, Phyllis Schlaffly's son ... gay, gay, gay.

Get over it, fundies.

What I see going on is hypocrisy from these people. They talk about how they hate the monstrosities against the Bible yet they all have them in their families. What? Are they special?

... tells Randall that maybe if wifey had gotten an abortion he wouldn't have had a homosexual child? Frankly, with the way that Randall has spread his own brew of hatred and untruth, he deserves to have someone say that to his face...

... what a shame it is that the birth mom didn't abort the gay fetus so he could adopt a real man -- and yes, Terry deserves to have his nose rubbed in his own bigotry...

I like the way the Almighty can deal with with flaming public religious hypocrites. Another reason to practice what you preach and hope and pray for mercy.

As I recall, Randall Terry, this very same avatar of "family values," got dis-fellowshipped by a church he was attending a few years ago due to accusations of adultery.

Probably had to pay for many an abortion over the years.

Typical hypocrite. He was a wannabe rock star, and when his talent wasn't up to snuff he found applause through demagoguery. Applause and horny "christian" women, apparently.

This must be the end of the debate.
I'm sure that as a boy Jamiel was lectured to constantly about the evils of being gay.
And unless this is a form of rebellion (highly unlikely, IMO), Jamiel was BORN GAY.

quite literally, while he was tripping on psychedelic drugs on a beach in Texas.

Apparently a fetal experience is not uncommon with certain of these drugs. If he'd only had a PDR with him, women's rights might not be under attack today.