April 14, 2004 by s.z.

"My Bad Son," Redux

 Randall Terry was given editorial space in the Washington Times to tell his story about how his gay son is a drunk driving, bad check writing, lying, unemployed dead beat -- and nothing is Terry's fault.  It's the same piece as the WorldNetDaily "exclusive" except that the part about homosexuals' "sexual addiction" not being genetic is now "sexual behavior," and the last paragraph trashes all "gay heroes" and no longer asks us to pray for Jamiel.  Here is that pargraph:

I am a father in anguish; my son is a young man in crisis who needs intervention, not heady interviews with CNN. Out magazine is despicable for exploiting my son for their political agenda. If my son is their latest "hero," I wonder how many of their leaders and trophies they portray as "model citizens" have lives that are this unraveled.

And speaking of exploiting his son for their political agenda, see this photo captioned "Randall Terry's adopted son Jameil waits to tape a campaign commercial for his father early in his father's run for office." (A tip of the hat to Thersites, whose comment tipped me off to look for this.)

And then there's this "fighting gay marriage in Vermont" news from 2000:

Rep. Nancy Sheltra, R-Derby, announced Thursday the formation of a new political action committee, "Standing Together and Reclaiming the State," or "STARS," which would solicit funds from Vermont and around the nation.

Sheltra was joined at a State House press conference by Jamiel Terry, a New York resident whose father, Randall Terry, brought the outspoken anti-homosexual organization called "the Loyal Opposition" to Vermont this winter. 

But the guy at the blog Badlands explains why Jamiel is messed up.  It's all Randall Terry's fault -- not for being a bad father, a bad husband, and a hateful bigot, but for adopting a black child when he's white. 

Racemixing is evil. It always destroys. Not always immediately, of course. It can take a generation or two. But, often, racemixers themselves come to a bad end; there's no generational time delay. Think Nicole Brown Simpson, and thousands of other battered and murdered women.

[I'm not positive that this guy's site isn't a sustained parody, but I kinda think it isn't.]

And what is the lesson from all this? 

Well, maybe that there are a lot of really deluded people out there -- and some of them run for Congress, while others just call in to the first guys' radio show to berate him for race mixing.  Be glad that none of them are your father.

11:20:19 PM