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Operation Rescue founder Randall “I hate my dead live dead gay son” Terry beat President Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries in 15 Oklahoma counties. That’s all well and good — NOobaAma, and etc. — but what does Randall Terry think of his gay son? Did you answer “disgusted” and “ashamed”? DING DING DING winner winner step right up!
Longtime anti-abortion activist Randall Terry in recent years has campaigned against gay marriage and homosexuality. So it was of some embarrassment to him when his son Jamiel published an article in the May issue of Out magazine revealing that he is gay. Terry responded by writing an op-ed, sharply criticizing his son and saying, “He is no longer welcome in my home.”
For good measure, Terry called his son full of fraud and deceit, and asked all good Christians to pray for his redemption, so that’s nice. We’re sure his deceitful, fraudulent son would appreciate it, if’n he had any manners at all.
Wonkette Sadness Update, OH NO! Your editrix, in making a very clever Heathers joke about gay sons, unfortunately had not googled deeply enough to find that Terry’s gay son did in fact die this past December. Our true condolences to whomever might have acted as his real family.
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They have sane people in Oklahoma?
They have people?
Never for long. In Oklahoma, a declaration of sanity is punishable by mandatory exile.
Well, I live in Oklahoma and I visit Wonkette…ok, bad example. Never mind.
I lived in Oklahoma. I didn't like it.
I hear you. Sometimes I just want to pack some hobo beans and hit the road.
I heard it was only steers and queers. Which would explain Randall, too.
If he didn't want his son to be gay, why did he name him "Jamiel"?
He thought his son was black.Ok, I'm an asshole. Mea culpa.
Really. Is he half blah?
it was actually supposed to be "JailMe" Terry, but his Birth Cert has a typo.
Show us the bird Certificate!!1!
Jamiel was an adopted son of mixed race. Jamiel died in an auto accident last November.
Whoa. A little fact-checking before snarking would have been nice. (Both me and our editrix.) Especially since it's apparently ok to un-disown your dead gay half-black but-still-immoral son: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/12/0…
that is a tragedy and i am sorry that he died. i wonder how his 'father' felt knowing how much he had hurt his son?
People like that don't care how much they hurt others. If they have a family member that they disapprove of, for whatever reason, they think *they*'re the real victims.
I'm only surprised that it was an auto accident, rather than one of Terry's lunatics throwing a bomb at the poor guy or something.
Randall “I hate my
deadlive gay son” Terry caught doing the wide-stance tap dance with Larry Craig in 3, 2, 1…need some sort of easement so there could permanently be men making love in his front yard.
Eminent domain exproprianus?
Hm… it IS for the public good.
I'll allow it.
ATTN Hell, Ironic Punishments Division:
Please ready the "clockwork orange" film loop setup for homophobes in preparation for Randall Terry.
So does he think Jamiel should have been aborted? Sophie's Choice, indeed, for this hater.
Growing up in OK, I'm familiar with their thinking. I knew a Church of Christ preacher who totally disowned his son when he found out he was gay. The mom would sneak visits to him in OKC (what we call 'the city'), but I remember thinking at a young age that that was a weird way to express God's love. Okay, snark back on.
Snark off. Often wondered why these folks think that a deity they praise as a God of ultimate love and compassion could want them to be always venting so much hate. And at their own children. Very sad, pathetic. Something pathological about that much anger. Snark on.
My theory is that when you repress all the energy and life force that would normally go into something as powerful as the sexual urges, it's bound to come out somewhere, like a pressure cooker, and usually in a much less pleasant form. All that repressed libido that the religious nutbags inflict upon themselves and others vents itself as anger and sadism.
tessiee:
And really foul Christian rock "music."
I'm pretty sure that making and/or listening to that crap falls neatly into the "sadism" category.
And then Oklahoma wonders why God keeps sending so many tornadoes their way…
Tornadoes are people too, my friends.
OK tornadoes are nature's little cleaner uppers.
Family Values, people!
~
Is this the first time we've had an actual terrorist make a vanity run for President?
David Duke, last of the Dixiecrats.
What about Duelin' Zel Miller? He should at least get an honorary terrorist nod.
If you ask the Brits, they might go with the first dozen or so Preznits.
WTF is wrong with these people? Do they ever live in the real world? Bail outs started under Bush, and they were a good thing, mostly, Barry wants high gas prices so he can wean us off foriegn oil, but he also wants to keeps us addicted to foriegn oil to serve his muslim masters. Barry risked a government shutdown, not the morons in congress If I gave these assclowns any thought they would make my head explode. How do they sleep at night? How can anyone be that stupid? Is it too early to drink?
It's never too early to drink.
Never too early, always too late.
"…asked all good Christians to pray for redemption…"
I haven't prayed for redemption since I wanted a really cool balsa wood glider and Mom was collecting S&H Green Stamps.
But then she ended up getting that really ugly lamp instead.
I used to think those were food stamps.
The plan:
step 1: gain 18% of the primary vote in OK, losing to Barack Obama by 29% points.
step 2: ???
result: Obama loses the election
A viable and dastardly plan, to be sure.
Butterfly effect?
You forgot
step 3: profit!
You misspelled "prophet".
Ah, Oklahoma. Even if you sent them back to the stone age you'd only set them back about 6 months.
Oklahoma- the only good thing about it is the musical
And even that's overrated at best.
And the corn is just the right height.
For He Who Sleeps Among the Rows.
At least Gheymericans still love Oklahoma, the musical.
And the Flaming Lips.
Okiedokiedog libel!
Don't forget the shaggy dog joke (based on the musical) about the Furry With The Syringe On Top.
terry terry terry. i realize YOU were saddled with a girl's name, but really. Jamiel?
Jamiel?
that's got musical theatre written all over it.
Woody!!!!!!!!!
"Campaigning against homosexuality" always reads as "hiding deep in the closet" to me.
oh and also, i'm not clicking on anything with 'randall terry' and 'ad' in the banner.
He is still welcome, however, in the slaves' quarters.
And my house, anytime Michele is at work.
xoxoxoxo
~ Marcus
Somebody named "Randall Terry" does not sound like a redneck bigot at all…
don't you mean; twisted fucked up self hating gay redneck bigot who rapes himself regularly with a pop bottle while dreaming of John Wayne.
Afterwards, he cries just like a little girl.
Would L. Randall Terry III work?
"No son of mine is going suck a cock out in the open!! It needs to be done at the video booths out on Hwy 12… doh…"
Wasn't Jebus gay? He never got married…
According to the Book of DaVinci Code, he was at least bi. But he did make out with Judas more than he should. And John was a little too much against teh ghey, if you know what I mean.
I think it was Nietszche who said "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, is still there." Your son's orientation is a biological fact, Mr. Terry, and as such it trumps The LORD every single time.
But if you really want to speak to your son again, find some damn Bible verse that lets you accept him — I know you can do it — you people find every goddamn manner thing in that book, so give it a try.
Not that I want to defend Terry, who's nothing but 100% hate and hypocrisy from head to toe, but for accuracy's sake I'll note that in the interview he says that he is continuing to talk to Jamiel, and (despicably, to be sure) compares the situation to being the father of a drug addict who wants him to stop, but still cares for him. So he hasn't stopped speaking.
[Terry claims - implausibly, to be sure - that the "not welcome in the home" decree is just because Jamiel gave family photographs to CNN, so he meets him elsewhere, not in the house.]
"Terry claims – implausibly, to be sure – that the "not welcome in the home" decree is just because Jamiel gave family photographs to CNN"
Yeah, hateful loony Randall Terry is OK with the gay son actually, you know, being gay and having sexytime with other gay men — but the family pictures? THEN he went too far!
Philip K. Dick. Also.
I remember seeing Terry hauled away at the 1992 March for Women's Lives in DC. He was raving at Jesse Jackson when about six police officers grabbed him and drug him away. Jesse just smiled and kept walking. I've seen some insane people in my life, but Randall Terry's right near the top of the list.
Wait. Randall Terry was running as a Democrat? With that campaign ad? Oh, this is SO your move, Santorum.
Of course, Lyndon LaRouche generally ran as a nominal Democrat, too.
So, Mr. Terry, how did your son catch teh ghey, with all that good Christian upbringing and everything? Why would he make such a lifestyle choice?
Don't you know, Satan targets the holiest families because when he wins one of their souls for perdition, he gets bonus miles. Or he does 3x Spiritual Damage, or something. I know there's a multiplier in there somewhere.
Like in Dangerous Liaisons when Valmont wanted to seduce a *virtuous* woman. /Book Geek/
In the interview, Terry says that Jamiel was adopted at age 9, and Terry blames his sexual orientation on abuse that he suffered before then. (Not that Terry gives any evidence that there actually was abuse, apart from obviously made-up numbers about the supposedly 90% of lesbians who he claims say they were abused as children.)
Jamiel, for his part, says he knew of his orientation since childhood, but it was only seeing his self-righteous father commit adultery with his secretary and then divorce Terry's adoptive mother to marry the secretary. Terry denies that he committed adultery, but of course the divorce is a matter of public record. Rather than opine on who is telling the truth (though I have an opinion, as I imagine you do as well), I'll just let Jesus have the last word (Luke: 16:18, parallel passages in Matthew 5:32, 19:3-10 and Mark 1:12, 10:7-9):
"Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery…"
(Remember Randall – that's the Savior speaking.)
According to the Chick tract "Wounded Children," the ghey is caused by looking at straight porn. The actual mechanics of this are not fully understood, although it appears to require the Devil Himself standing next to you and telling you to do shit.
Thanks for the tip. I haven't seen that one yet, but I am a bit behind. I've been too busy reading just the ones about the Satanic origin of Mormonism and Catholicism and leaving them in the pews of local fundamentalist churches.—
Memo to Mr. Terry: the Devil did not make him do it.
I think the Parenting License should be yanked for every parent who starts a sentence with "I don't know how s/he turned out like …"
Wait, they don't give Parenting Licenses. Maybe there is a message here.
We should all send Mr. Terry emails telling him it's his fault his son is gay. That's what really frightens the "holier than thou" 'phobes. Especially if they're hiding a little of the down-low themselves.
Just because he sported wood every time he spanked little Jamiel doesn't mean it's all his fault Jr has a hankering for the buttsecks.
This thread needs more youtube of Vermin Supreme trying to turn Randall Terry gay with a pixie dust attack.
Thanksgiving is going to suck in the Terry household.
Like it didn't to begin with?
OK, that's kind of a cheap shot. I mean, is there a household in the world where Thanksgiving is not a comedy/tragedy?
All is made better (or at least less bitter) with Wonkette's Actual Awesome Real Cranberry Business (works for Christmas, too): http://wonkette.com/430787/how-to-make-wonkette%E…
It's just sad. A father who has no love for his son. This probably connects to Jesus' sky-dad having Him put to death, but don't we try to hold ourselves to a higher standard when it comes to our own children?
Terry and others like him say they love the unborn. But too often — always, really — they clearly don't love the already-born. Whether it's food stamps or education or health or war, they view gift of life as secondary to some political or financial consideration.
Remind Terry to "love the sinner but hate the sin". He may find that hard to do, but a real father is strengthened by love for his family.
I really can't find any snark here (sort of astounding, given that it's Randall Terry we're talking about). But: A father disowns his son, that son is now dead, and there's zero chance for redemption. It's like a Eugene O'Neill play (without the humor).
"if you put principle ahead of party" – um, errr, Terry? Yeah, you got the teabagger party and the democratic party mixed up again.
Yeah, the Democratic Party doesn't put much of anything ahead of anything.
Well since people that Randall Terry complain about often end up dead because his words are "misunderstood" by his followers, I would be careful near windows if I was Jamiel
Will Rogers:
"When ignorance gets started, it knows no bounds."
Ya can't spell "Christians" without "ass itch"
Terry? Gross.
I need some fresh air in here.
I see what you did there.
Wait, wait, don't tell me…
All things considered, he's a bad choice.
Clearly, if you want to have a fucknut for a son, put "Terry" somewhere in his name – Randall Terry, Terry Jones, Terr(y)ell Owens…..
Shit, I always wanted to be good at something but now I have to change my nick name to 'Bad Christian'.
looks like the sort of guy we'll be reading about in year or so…meth, male hooker…usual scenario…
So if we pray for his son's redemption, are those prayers funneled through Bachmann & Associates where some of the prayer is siphoned off and bottled as a cure for gheyness?
I am going to pray for his son to have a happy, normal married life in the suburbs, with kids… and a husband, while pops goes through a string of divorces and vicodin binges.
“I
lovehate mydeadlive gay son”Heathers reference for the win!
/snark off
You know, there are people who lost their children to wars, street violence, diseases and the like who would give their *own* lives just to have a few more minutes with their kid.
Then there's this asshole…
That sums it up nicely.
W.(T.F.)W.J.D.?
Randall Terry probably has a collection of dead fetuses who he cherishes more than his own gay son. What a failure of a father and man.
Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian©, does not approve.
Oh, so this is the clown that has all the Yahoo commenters beating their chests over Obama not being a sure re-election. Nobody bothered to mention that it was this murderer for Christ.
Yes, Obama is doomed without the Oklahoma vote! (of which he didn't win a single county back in 2008)
Actually, there is some sanity left in Oklahoma http://www.okiefunk.com/ . But it's a voice crying in a wilderness.
Don't forgets Bartcop!
http://www.bartcop.com/
Kept me sane, back in teh 00's…
That's a hell of lead in the story about his son:
"LILBURN — When the Plymouth Breeze slipped a couple feet across the center line Wednesday morning, slamming head-on into a Nissan Rouge, Jamiel Terry's potential as a human being and the rift he was mending with his presidential-candidate father came to a tragic halt."
Why can't Richard Cohen write like that.?
Everybody who gives a fuck what this turd says or does raise their hazzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
If by 'beating Obama', you mean losing SPECTACULARY, maybe Obama could get him a job in the White House coat check room.
Because of all the hangers…
First, name your son Jamiel in Oklahoma. Second, buy him lipstick.
First grade: "Hey, there's JAMIEL…Let's go beat the shit out of him."
Second through twelfth grades: Same.
Very sad that Jamiel was killed — my heart goes out to his loved ones. Life is too damn short to spend it judging people for pointless and arbitrary reasons.
He's acting judgmental, holier-than-though, hateful and bigoted – it sounds to me that he's acting exactly Christian.
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