Eleven Arrests at Giuliani's Headquarters -- Manchester, New Hampshire

MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 19 /Christian Newswire/ -- Eleven protesters led by national anti-abortion activist Randall Terry were arrested yesterday outside Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign office.

The pro-life activists, from Florida, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, and New Hampshire, were released later that day with trespassing charges while Mr. Terry remained in custody awaiting his court hearing.

Randall Terry's supporters will be picketing starting at 8 a.m., for the third day in a row in New Hampshire, outside of the County Courthouse, at 35 Amherst, Manchester, NH, waiting for his release.

Of the three quotes, only the first two are disturbing; the third is sober truth. And the two that are ---admittedly--- damaging are 13 and 15 years old, respectively.

I would not give most people the benefit of the doubt, but (because I knew Randy: I'll explain this later)I would give Randy the benefit in two ways: I wouldn't necessarily assume that a direct quote in a newspaper was accurate; and I would assume that there was some context that made better sense of it.

That's giving him quite a bit of benefit of the doubt, you might say. Granted. But I think it's justified because I worked for Randy for a number of months with Operation Rescue, and saw his character. Though when I left O.R. I had some serious questions about his leadership, those questions did not involve any violence or malice on his part.

Maybe a personal story would cast some light on why I'm giving Randy a bit of latitude. I once sat in on a conversation between him and some students at a Christian college (he was a guest speaker in the class.) He'd said that God hates abortion and perversion. Some of the students objected to the idea that God "hates" and argued instead that Jesus says we should be "tolerant"; Randy came back with the good point that the moral weight of "hate" and "tolerate" depends entirely on the object of the verbs: what is it you're hating, and what is it you're tolerating?

Using a concordance, he of course easily proved his point: Scripture shows that God hates "falsehood" and "worthless idols" "haughty eyes," "a lying tongue," "hands that shed innocent blood.

So I would strongly suspect that he was making a larger point in that "hate" and "intolerance" speech quoted by the Ft. Wayne News Sentinel or whatever.

It's still rhetorical excess, I think, to put that sort of thing in a public speech rather than in a discussion with Bible students. He's certainly foolish to supply reporters with hot pull-out quotes.

But I am obliged by old association to give him a certain amount of latitude, and I suppose that you are under no such obligation. Fair enough. But do keep in mind that only the man running the race can stumble; we on the sidelines never do, and (speaking for myself) I fear that we can be judged for that as well.

He says more than just that , surely you know that .

I guess I don't know, what does he say that is so inflammatory.

Inflammatory isn't always bad you know. It was inflammatory that started the revolutionary war. Telling the truth these days is inflammatory, especially when its about slaughtering babies at the rate of 4000 each day in this country alone. And it takes all kinds to get the message out.

I realize getting the message out in a way that is easily received like facts about preborn babies on billboards etc, and ofcourse the sure fire way is preaching the gospel of Christ, and as they eccept Christ their heart is changed. Other than that it is very hard to change some of the hard hearted,evil minded people.

If he says stuff like this from #48, I agree with him:

"There are three options when you find out a family member is homosexual. One is accept them and their lifestyle as if it's normal. Two is to reject them and sever your relationship. Three is to love them unconditionally, but to tell them you do not accept their behavior as normal, and to tell them the truth....I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that."

Prolife is the most important issue because it is the reason for every single other issue. We need to stop Rudy at all costs. Maybe he can draw enough attention to Rudy's extreme position on murdering babies to keep people from voting for him.

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