Posted on 11/22/2005 7:20:33 AM PST by ncountylee
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- An 18-year-old single father whose struggle raising his toddler daughter was featured in People magazine has been killed in Philadelphia.
Terrell Pough was shot in the head on his way home from work Thursday night and later died at Temple University Hospital, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Police said they have no suspects but do have a possible lead. No further details of the slaying were released.
The August issue of People profiled Pough, who worked as the night manger at a local restaurant while attending school full-time and raising his daughter, Diamond, who will be 2 on Nov. 27.
"She's what I work for, what I live for, why I wake up," he told People. "She's everything."
Diamond, who had full-custody of his daughter, had planned to work in construction after graduating next June.
"If something ever happens to me, no one can ever tell her that her dad didn't take care of her," he told People.
Anyway, it was never my intent.
Please know that I never said anything about Harriett Miers at any time. Howlin is lying. And if you stick around FR long enough, you will find out on your own how she is. You may think you are her friend now....but time has a way of correcting that. Just ask some of those who did participate in the Harriett threads......
Good Day and Happy Thanksgiving.
We were waiting on those...I am supposed to tell you to get your own original ideas....that was used by someone who used to post here in the past...quit stealing her ideas...
I don't see anybody here sticking up for you. I guess your friends don't bother with that, huh?
I am supposed to tell you to get your own original ideas....
Are you channeling? Why don't your "friends" have the balls to speak up?
that was used by someone who used to post here in the past...quit stealing her ideas...
I've been using that since 1998 for people like you. Get over it.
Not only does YDH look bad, she gives others yet another excuse to paint the entire board as a pack of loons.
Well, she was the most vocal of the trashers of this boy (but she always is, but there were a couple of others who joined in the fray.
Tasteless and very unChristian like.
The very ones people point to to "prove" how nasty conservatives are.
You constantly tell people to back up what they have said when they say you said something...remember this thread the next time you tell someone that. Everyone else will remember.
You are a liar, Howlin...plain and simple.
Another lie.....I think someone else was using it before you.
Gawd, you are petty, aren't you?
I've been using that since I got here in 1998; get OVER it.
Still waiting.....
Are you truly an idiot or do you just play one on Free Republic? Tookie is a cold blooded murderer and founder of a criminal enterprise that plagues the United States to this very day. The victim in this story, had premarital sex. How dare you even compare the two?
Read the post in context, who it was posted to, and then know it was in jest....
grow up.
This neener neener nanner crap you have put on this thread is absolutely inane.
Anyway, though, it is a Holiday week and I feel guilty for being on the computer all day and getting nothing done really. I never do that!!!! But I will cut my self some slack since I am on school break.
I am sure someone will email me if she ever does posts the comment she swears I made. If not, I am sure I will also hear about that.
Happy Thanksgiving
This isn't about my morality. I was not featured in a national magazine. It's about backhandedly promoting immorality while making it appear moral. What this young guy did AFTER his mistake was a good thing - no one is arguing that. What do you tell your children? That it's okay to have sex at 15? That it's fine if a child is raised in a single family home? That there are no detrimental effects on children raised in single family homes with the other parent totally absent from their life? That's not what I want my kids taught.
You clearly feel that you can make any false accusation you want to defend your position, and I don't call that moral.
The absurdity of your 'backhanded' accusations of me, are beyond the pale.
From what I've seen of you on this thread, I really think you need to reevaluate your relationship with the Lord. You're inside out here.
"For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." Matthew 23: 12
The words of Jesus, given to you by a sister in Christ. You are WAY out of line, and I recommend you spend some time in prayer about the things you have said here.
Thank you for your advice.
btw, I already made it perfectly clear that I am as much a purist when it comes to extramarital sex as anyone alive. My husband and I married in our late twenties and had 'saved ourselves' for each other (not all that easy in the '60's and '70's). We have raised four children to adulthood in purity and morality. It is a high priority for us all.
They even made the choice not to date, to make sure that they weren't tempted in this foul, putrid world, to do something they would later regret.
But that has NOTHING to do with my admiration for this young man who corrected his behavior and straightened up. The two things have nothing to do with each other, and your twisting them to make some sordid connection just stinks.
I hate it when people who call themselves Christians deliberately offend as you just did. And I wonder why anyone who names the Name of Jesus Christ would do so.
Rest in Peace
Terrell Pough
My prayers go up for all who now mourn Terrell's passing.
Blessings,
trussell
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