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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (187486)	4/30/2004 4:48:38 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572924

Ted, I have never once threatened her nor tried to take away her right to speak. Neither did I threaten Prof. de Genova or try to take away his right to speak. I wasn't the one bringing up the "free speech" defense; you were. I only brought up the professor's comments to show the similarity to your phrase of "100 Fallujahs." The professor's comments were unpopular and unwise, but of course, he had every right to be an idiot in public. And you have every right to follow in his footsteps. :^) You're too generous.......but don't call me a hypocrite when its not appropriate. In fact, the hypocrites are usually found to be on the right! Here's an example........the guy's a real charmer.........maybe you've run into him at a church convention or at GOP headquarters or at an anti abortion rally: Nation & World: Friday, April 23, 2004 Operation Rescue founder's son — 'I'm gay' By The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The son of Christian activist Randall Terry, known for his strident opposition to abortion and homosexuality, says he is gay. In an article in the May issue of Out magazine — for which he was paid $2,500 — Jamiel Terry, 24, says he first realized he was gay seven years ago, when a male friend with whom he had been intimate asked if they were gay or bisexual. "I didn't know how to respond," he writes. "I mean, we had been having sex for ages, but I'd always believed I couldn't be gay: I was the son of Randall Terry, a major leader of the Christian right's anti-abortion movement and now a leader in the fight against marriage for same-sex couples." Before the Out article was released, Randall Terry published an essay, "My prodigal son, the homosexual," on several Internet sites, including RandallTerry.com, writing his son "sold out our family's privacy and private discussions for cold cash." The younger Terry told The Washington Post that his father drove from Florida to Charlotte, where the son lives, to speak with him about the first-person magazine story — and to ask why he had not told the elder Terry about it. "I told him: 'Dad, how was I supposed to tell you? Look who you are,' " Jamiel Terry said in yesterday's Post. He also denied his father's accusations that Out's editors solicited the article and put words in his mouth. The younger Terry said he sought out the magazine. Jamiel Terry said it was true, as his father had claimed, that he'd been convicted of drunken driving, written bad checks and committed other frauds. "Dad doesn't mess around with Tomahawks, he sends in the nuclear warheads," he said. "My father's first and foremost aim is to protect himself." Randall Terry founded Operation Rescue in 1986. The group applied civil rights-era strategies of civil disobedience to the fight against legalized abortion. He also has spoken out against gay marriage. Jamiel Terry is the son of a woman whom the elder Terry talked out of having an abortion. The Terrys took in Jamiel and his two sisters as foster children, and then adopted Jamiel and his younger sister in 1994. The children's mother has died. "Tragically, by the time we got him as a foster child, he (Jamiel) had already learned a lifestyle of deceit," Randall Terry writes. archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com