Republican Candidate excludes daughter and gay son from campaign photo

[Ian_rd]

In Senate race, family values campaign tested by real life
DAVID ROYSE
Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Randall Terry doesn't run away from "family values issues" in his state Senate race.

Among the conservative Christian's pledges are preserving traditional marriage and opposing gay adoptions. He has touted efforts to stop abortions. His campaign mailers sum up the value he puts on family: they show a picture with his wife, a daughter and three grinning young sons taken before a fourth was born this summer.

But Terry's adopted son Jamiel says the picture is missing two people: he and his sister Tila, also adopted. Both have been estranged from Terry since Jamiel came out as a gay man and Tila had a child out of wedlock.

Jamiel Terry said the self-image that his father is crafting and the campaign message about strong families ignores part of his own family history. He said voters have a right to know about that.

"He is very big on image," Jamiel Terry said. "In a large way Tila and I mess up that image."

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Randall Terry said he strongly disapproves of his son's homosexuality.

"But I'm absolutely not ashamed - I love him," he said. He said Jamiel Terry was smart - and said that by talking to a reporter Jamiel was simply trying to get at his father as part of their ongoing disagreement. But he said overall, "I'm very proud of him."

Jamiel Terry also said his father left Tila Terry to fend for herself when she was pregnant - a charge Randall Terry vehemently denies. He said he has tried to get his daughter into a program that helps unwed young mothers. She didn't return phone calls seeking comment.

Jamiel Terry said his father's policy ideas don't always fit his own behavior.

"He has tried to say abortion should not exist because families and churches should step in," Jamiel Terry said. "When his own daughter is pregnant, he refuses to help her."

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[devilgrrl]

1. Randall Terry is a closet case...

and that's what I'm saying.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. The straights can have him!

Despite our vast recruitment efforts, there are some people that the Gay Conspiracy just do not want!

[CrushTheDLC]

5. Randall Terry is a terrorist hatemonger.

A couple of memorable quotes from Randy the Terrorist......


"Let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good.... If a Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It's that simple.... 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. We want theocracy. Theocracy means God rules. I've got a hot flash. God rules."

Randall Terry, Head of Operation Rescue, from The News Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Aug 15, 1993

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"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we will execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed... If we're going to have true reformation in America, it is because men once again, if I may use a worn out expression, have righteous testoserone flowing through their veins. They are not afraid of contempt for their contemporaries. They are not even here to get along. They are here to take over... Somebody like Susan Smith should be dead. She should be dead now. Some people will go, "Well how do you know God doesn't have a wonderful plan for her life?" He does, it's listed in the Bible. His plan for her is that she should be dead."

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, at the Aug 8, 1995 U.S. Taxpayers Alliance Banquet in Washington DC, talking about doctors who perform abortions and volunteer escorts

[warrens]

12. Pedophile, perhaps

Doesn't look like the type who actually likes adult relationships, you ask me.

[Katina]

3. it gets better..listen to the phone call ads Terry is sending out

using the "boogyman" Bill Clinton. How screwed up is that?

http://www.randallterry.com/comedy/audio/Bill_Clinton_Vote_King.wma

[w13rd0]

4. Randall Terry is filth...

...and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

He advocates and approves of terrorism. He may be trying to mellow his image a little, but anyone that actually had the displeasure of meeting him in the 90s knows what I'm talking about. Wingnuttery to the nth degree.

[RB TexLa]

6. I don't need to see a picture of any of their spouses or children

they are people that don't matter in the election.

[frylock]

13. they matter when your campaign cites "family values" as a core issue

[conflictgirl]

7. If they don't fit your image, just pretend they don't exist!

It's the Republican way!

[shain from kane]

9. Buried in the cornfield. It's a good life. n/t

[malaise]

8. I wonder what other goods those

two kids have on this piece of slime.

[TlalocW]

10. If we're going to talk about Biblically Immoral Behavior

Then his SECOND wife and their new hatchling shouldn't be in the photo either since that makes him an adulterer by Biblical standards.

TlalocW

[Richard Steele]

11. Randall Terry is absolute human slime.

And that's all I have to say about that.