Randall Terry pops back up-this time as the Presidet of "The Society for Truth & Justice"

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Randall Terry pops back up-this time as the Presidet of "The Society for Truth & Justice"

Saw this last night on The Daily Show-Terry was in a clip
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=227363&title=fetalmania

So I googled "The Society for Truth & Justice" nice name huh?

http://www.thesocietyfortruthandjustice.com/

For those who don't want to give the site traffic by clicking on it I will summarize

The Society for Truth and Justice
904-687-9804

Okay that is it. That is the actual website content. All of it

The logo is actually a link to this- an anti-choice site (1 page) which is actually (according to the window title at the bottom of the screen) OperationRescue
http://www.ahumbleplea.com/

So who IS Randall Terry??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Terry

Randall A. Terry is an American activist and musician. A political conservative, Terry founded the pro-life organization Operation Rescue in 1987 and led the group for its first 10 years. He has been arrested more than 40 times, most recently for protesting the upcoming commencement visit at the University of Notre Dame by President Barack Obama, who is pro-choice, by defying a court order to stay off the school's property.<1>

In 2003, Randall Terry founded the Society for Truth and Justice and he conducted a program called Operation Witness. He was the spokesman for the Schindler family in the Terri Schiavo case. In 2006, he unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for senator of Florida's eighth district.

Lawsuit, NOW v. Scheidler

Randall Terry was named as a co-defendant in the 1994 Supreme Court case, NOW v. Scheidler, a class action suit to compel anti-abortion leaders to compensate clinics for loss of business. Terry settled out of court with the National Organization for Women. He promptly filed bankruptcy, prompting Senator Charles Schumer to propose an amendment to a bankruptcy bill in Congress which would "specifically ... prevent abortion opponents from using the bankruptcy code to escape paying court fines." The amendment was not included in the final bill.

On February 28, 2006, the Supreme Court voted 8-0 for Scheidler, against NOW.<2>

Personal life

In March 1988, Randall Terry took in three troubled foster childen ages 3, 8 and 12. He adopted them seven years later. In 2000, Terry divorced his wife of 19 years and married Andrea Kollmorgen.

Both of Terry's adopted daughters became pregnant outside of marriage; one later converted to Islam.<3>

In 2004, Terry's son Jamiel Terry, the middle child who had been born in jail, publicly announced that he was a homosexual and wrote an article for Out Magazine<4> for which he was paid $2,500.

Terry contends much of the article was written by other people and most of the statements purported to be facts in the article were untrue. Terry promptly disowned his son and claimed that he had "prostituted" the family name. He attributed Jamiel's sexuality to his biological mother, saying that she was a prostitute. <5>

In 2005, Terry formally converted to Roman Catholicism.<6>

Who is Randall Terry?
March 21, 2005
http://mediamatters.org/research/200503220001
Additional evidence suggests that actions by Terry and Operation Rescue may have provoked violence at abortion clinics. As the New York Times reported on July 20, 2001, "One of his most avid followers in Binghamton was James E. Kopp, now charged in the 1998 murder of a doctor who performed abortions in Buffalo ." Kopp was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. A November 6, 1998, Times report further detailed Terry's connection to Kopp:

In July 1988, when Randall Terry drove through the night from his home in Binghamton, N.Y., to Atlanta to start the series of anti-abortion protests that would finally put his new hard-line group, Operation Rescue, onto America's front pages, James Charles Kopp was in the van riding alongside him, said former leaders of Operation Rescue.

And when Mr. Terry was arrested on the first day of Operation Rescue's "Siege of Atlanta," Mr. Kopp followed him into jail, said the leaders, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Along with more than 100 other Operation Rescue members, according to some people who were there, Mr. Kopp remained in jail for 40 days and adhered to Mr. Terry's orders not to give a real name to the police or courts.

After his release, Mr. Kopp returned to Operation Rescue's Binghamton headquarters, and was there working alongside Mr. Terry as the group's power and influence in the anti-abortion movement surged in late 1988 and 1989, according to the former leaders of Operation Rescue.