Randall Terry: "I would like somehow to be a likable normal guy now."

[Bluebear]

Randall Terry in an undated Glamour Shot. America's permed bastion of "Christian" manhood.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/29/Tampabay/Voice_for_Schindlers_.shtml

"I need a head count," he said. "Raise your hand if you can get on that bus to Tallahassee. Who's going? We need people.

"You're doing this," he added, "for Terri." (note: or for Terry in this case.)

Several dozen hands shot into the air.

"Good," he said. "Very good."
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Read all about him. How he denounced his gay son. How his own church threw his sanctimonious ass out for a "pattern of repeated and sinful relationships and conversations with both single and married women."

[grannylib]

1. For some reason, when I see him or hear his name, I always think of

Randall Flagg, the Devil in "The Stand"
Wonder why that is???

[whistle]

2. Someone please expose this hypocrite for who and what he...

...really is

[Lauri16]

7. Those of us in Upstate NY

have had to put up with this asshole long before he went national. He's a psycho freak.

He had the audacity to march in the July 4th parade a few years ago in this very small town of mine. My brother and a friend of his stood on the side of the road and hawked lugies at him.

I don't generally use the word hate, but in his case, I HATE him.

[animuscitizen]

9. I hear you, Randall Terry bites...

I got a crash course in Randall Terry when I went to college in Binghamton, NY during the early 90's. He was living in that area at the time. He had a radio station that spewed some of the most misogynistic crap I have ever heard.

My friend was a reporter for a Binghamton paper and made it her business to dig up Randall Terry's dirt. She did not have to excavate to find huge mountains of garbage.

[Lauri16]

10. I can't remember the name,

but did your friend write the articles in the editorial section of the Press? I think I remember her. I'm in the next county over (Tioga).

His face was impossible to avoid in the 80's & 90's. Him and his merry band of idiots were all over the place screaming their crap. :puke:

[animuscitizen]

12. She did editorials at one time

She also used to cover local news/politics. I think the paper is called the Press and Sun Bulletin? She is not on staff there currently--she is working for Binghamton University.

I remember Randall's Operation Rescue idiots crowding around those abortion clinics in Binghamton. I had to fight through that swamp of deranged fools to exercise my own freedom of choice. It was not fun- it was a bit scary.

[Lauri16]

13. Yeah, i'm pretty sure

it's the same person. Yes, it's the Press & Sun Bulletin. Well, she didn't have to go far to change jobs, right across the Parkway!

I remember one time me and my Mom were at the Northgate Plaza, and RT was there with his brood. There was a "nun" there. My Mom walked over and told her that she should be ashamed of herself posing as a nun. The woman started to say something and my Mom shut her up and told her that a REAL Nun wouldn't walk around waving a rosary in the air that didn't have the proper number of beads on it. The woman shoved the rosary under her fake habit and stomped off telling my Mother to go to hell.

Yep, those are Randy's freaks for you!

[animuscitizen]

15. Sounds like your mom got the nun's panties in a bunch. Good!

It's comforting to communicate with someone that understands Randall Terry as a narcissistic blowhard.

Tioga County-- I remember a big flea market--with Amish baked goods and deals on antiques. There's also a park near the river--can't think of the name--but I used to spend time there. It is a pretty area. And I love those Finger Lakes--which are only a short drive from you. Too bad Randall sometimes disturbs the scenery with his ugly mug and his fruit loop posse.

[Lauri16]

21. The Flea Market hasn't been there in a long time

Not sure if they moved it or just stopped. I used to go to it with my Mom all the time, she loved it. If the park you're talking about is in Owego, it's Hickories Park. I love going there.

Randall is just a freak.

[animuscitizen]

26. Yes --Hickories park--a beautiful spot

[Mizmoon]

22. I remember him from Binghamton

him and all of those freaking protestors harassing women entering the clinic there ... they should have been ashamed.

[Lauri16]

23. There were a couple of places

I think the Dr.'s name was Dr. Epstein? First he was in the Northgate Plaza, then he moved to Front St., then I think it was one of his other Dr.'s split from him and moved to Vestal. And his face was there. What a freak.

[Mizmoon]

24. I think it was Front Street, by Binghamton H.S.

that I saw them. They were heartlessly cruel to the women trying to get medical services.

[animuscitizen]

25. The nuts also used to crowd around Amy Cousin's Office--in Vestal

They are cruel. They call women entering the clinics things like "murderer" and wave jars filled fetal pigs saying: "Look at the baby you are killing."

Women travel from those neighboring, ultra conservative areas of PA to go to those clinics in Binghamton. This is because they do not have clinics in their area. Abortion is an emotional experience--even when the woman knows she is making the right decision. The last thing she needs is harassment by these goons--it can make the experience traumatizing.

[Lauri16]

27. Yeah, that's the Dr. that I was thinking about

Amy Cousins. She split from Dr. Epstein. He had some legal problems that had nothing to do with RT. Money issues, I think.

My husband and I go to physical therapy right next to where she is. I haven't noticed if she's still there or not. Usually in the summertime, there's always people hanging out right on the side of 434. I keep hoping they'll get run over. :evilgrin:

[napi21]

3. Saw way too much of this asshat on TV. Don't want to see him here!

He's actually not RW, he's off the chart!

I hope God take Terri soon and makes these AH's go away!

[Az]

4. Some Terry quotes to chew on

Taken from www.positiveatheism.com

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good.... 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.
-- Randall Terry, quoted in The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 16, 1993

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'll 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.
-- Randall Terry, referring to doctors who perform abortions, quoted from TheWarOnFaith.com ††

What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church.
-- Randall Terry, confusing the religion of paganism with the use of the word pagan as slang for atheist or unchurched, as religious Pagans would not go to church, but atheists are often forced to attend Christian worship services because the sheer bigotry against us at the hands of the Christian majority almost guarantees social failure lest we pretend to be Christian, in a speech (1992)

You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as "We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme."
-- Randall Terry, quoted from TheWarOnFaith.com ††

There is going to be war, take up the sword to overthrow the tyrannical regime that oppresses them.
-- Randall Terry, describing his plan at the 1995 National Operation Rescue meeting in Louisiana,

[Walt Starr]

5. That rug is the worst wig I've ever seen.

Seriously, it's awful! I've never seen a wig that looked more like a wig than Randall Terry's wig!

[wookie294]

6. Right wingers have alot of gay kids

Alan Keyes, Dick Cheney, Randall Terry. Hell's the deal? LOL!

[Bluebear]

8. I think they see their parents "sanctified marriages" and say NOT ME!

J/K

Welcome to DU!

[catzies]

11. Inside that guy is a failed cult leader. He forgot one thing about a cult

of personality -- it helps if you have a good one, and not just the messianic tendencies.

Those eyes. That's fake warmth and they're creepy. :scared:

[REP]

14. Randall Terry, American Terrorist

I just don't like terrorists. I'm funny that way.

[Az]

16. Dear Mr Terry. Normal likable guys

do not put themself in the center of political/social controvercies. That is where attention starved egomaniacs are found. If you want to be a normal likable guy.... go away.

[Cooley Hurd]

17. James Kopp's buddy (grr)...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200503220001

<snip>
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.
</snip>

[animuscitizen]

18. Someone here used the descriptive "American Terrorist"

That sounds accurate, based upon stuff like this. I do not understand why the media offers Randall Terry a loudspeaker and a stage. It is nauseating.

[Tsiyu]

19. Jeff Gannon/Guckert whoever wants the SAME Thing!!!!

Dude, if you want people to like you, you don't tread on their rights as women ( Yes, Mr. Terry, women are people too! Who knew!) or homosexuals ( Yes, Mr. Terry, Gay and Lesbian humans are people too! Who knew?).

Apologize to all the people you hurt.

Or, change your hair, hire an image consultant and continue to be a bitter man with a heart full of boiling pus.

[noonwitch]

20. It takes a long time to recover from getting slapped down by Reno and RICO

I will always love Janet Reno for applying RICO laws to Operation Rescue, thus ultimately bankrupting them. I'll bet somebody is paying Terry big time for his involvement in the Schiavo case, and it ain't the Schindlers.