Randall Terry's son will not fight against gay marriage

[ikojo]

I don't know if this has already been posted (can't imagine why it hasn't). Moderators, if it is a dupe please lock.
Thanks!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32934-2004Apr21.html

Family Values
Randall Terry Fights Gay Unions. His Son No Longer Will.
By Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 22, 2004; Page C01
CHARLOTTE

Jamiel Terry grew up a child of movement royalty.

His father, Randall Terry, was a wavy-haired charismatic possessed of a mellifluous voice and proudly extreme politics, a Christian warrior from Upstate New York who founded Operation Rescue, appeared regularly on national television and denounced murderous abortionists and demonic homosexual sodomites.

[Quetzal]

1. What an awful experience

I recently came out to my mother. Luckily, there was a psychologist in the room to restrain her.

From the article:

"Dad doesn't mess around with Tomahawks, he sends in the nuclear warheads," Jamiel says. "My father's first and foremost aim is to protect himself. He talks about how I prostitute the family's name, but he's used the fact that he saved my sister from abortion and rescued me from hardship in his speeches and interviews. What's the difference?"

Jamiel pauses and adds: "My father talks about how deceitful I am. But I was 11, 12, 13, 14. How was I supposed to make sense, in a family that didn't talk about it, of what I was feeling? How am I deceitful?"

"I still fight the thought that I'm committing a mortal sin." There's a moment of silence and Jamiel continues. "God knows my heart. Randall Terry doesn't know my heart."

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2. i have a RW ex marine "pal" who i play online bridge with

His son (32) told him last month he was gay and told my pal "you were a horrible parent"

While all the above may have been true, I can tell you my pal was devastated, not because his son is gay but because his son "hates" him. Family dynamics are such a minefield no matter who your family is.