Randall Terry is Running Again



Anti-abortion whacko, Randall Terry, is running again for President. If you have not heard of him or do not remember, it's worth a little time to review who he is and what he does for a living.

Terry has made a living for decades by going to cities with abortion clinics and getting local people to pack the sidewalks blocking access. He founded Operation Rescue. He has been in jail many times and uses these jail visits for fund raising. While I was Mayor of Fargo, ND, he visited for just a day or so. The newspaper quoted him as saying his pockets "were bulging" (with money).

He was married to a woman for several years and had several children. I assume he was gone a good share of the time. Then he married a younger aide. After that he converted from being a Protestant evangelical to Catholicism. This was convenient because he could then get his first marriage annulled and pretend he was never married or divorced.

The Terry technique of physically blocking sidewalks or right of way access to abortion clinics has been treated quite forcefully by courts recently. I assume Terry is careful to let others go to prison for long stretches while he does overnighters and returns to fund raising. 

When I was Mayor of Fargo, many of the people who physically blocked access to our local clinic came to my office to visit. Almost to a person, they could not understand why our Police had them arrested. When I would point out their own businesses and those of friends and family might be blocked in retaliation by abortion rights people they could not understand why this could happen. They themselves, after all, were doing God's work while breaking the law. No one else had the right to make this claim, they thought. When two protestors where sentenced to hard time in the N.D. Prison it did sink in to a few of them. 

Everyone who gives money to Randall Terry should remember abortion rights is gaining, not losing. Terry's quest is an unsuccessful one. Your money and votes are wasted on him.  


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