Randall Terry (Operation Rescue) and his gay son differ on "family values"

[varun]

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid35861.asp

Randall Terry, a leading conservative Christian, doesn't run away from "family values issues" in his Florida state senate race, but his gay son, Jamiel, says things are not what they seem. Among the senior Terry's pledges are preserving traditional marriage and opposing adoptions by gays. He has touted efforts to stop abortions. His campaign mailers sum up the value he puts on family: They show a picture of him with his wife, a daughter, and three grinning young sons taken before a fourth was born this summer.

But Jamiel, Terry's adopted son, says the picture is missing two people: him 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...

...Terry also said his father left Tila 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.

..."Both Tila and I have tried to revive or rekindle our relationship with my father, and we've been shut out," he said. "So maybe if we had been invited for Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc., we would be in a family photo."

[xchrom]

1. quelle surpise.

randall terry is far too busy thinking about the security of american genitals to be worried about his own children.

can't they understand randall -- dad -- has a higher calling?

he is thinking about what goes on in my pants - for god's sake.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Madelyn Murray O'Hare had a similar situation in reverse.

Her son, William, denounced his mother, who was the head of American Atheists and a successful Supreme Court litigant (with Edd Shempp with respect to the ouster of school-sanctioned prayers in pubic schools). William became a fundamentalist Christian minister.