I love the choice of two of the spokesmen for the Schindler family. They requested Jesse Jackson to come down and speak on their cause's behalf. Jesse Jackson had an affair and a child out of wedlock recently. So he is an adulterer and has a bastard child by a concubine, to use some of the terminology Terri supporters use against Michael Schiavo and his children by his fiance. It's such hypocracy to have Jesse Jackson represent the moral values crowd on behalf of Terri Schiavo.
Then there is one of the other main spokesmen for the Schiavo's, Randall Terry. Here is a bit of information about him:
Randall Terry, anti-abortion activist and now Schindler family spokesman, has an unusual family background. CNN's Anderson Cooper reported tonight: (Transcript available on Lexis.com):
BAKHTIAR: It's been a long road for Randall Terry, who was once imprisoned for sending former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His clinic crusade slowed after he was forced to settle a lawsuit with Planned Parenthood. He moved to Florida and campaigned against infidelity and birth control, gays and unwed mothers.
But a year ago, his expanded agenda came under fire from his own devout Christian family, the children who once were featured in TV ads.
...His son Jamiel came out as gay in a magazine article.
JAMIEL TERRY, RANDALL TERRY'S SON: In my family, it was you start having sex outside of marriage you get AIDS, you're a whore, your a slut, those are exact words. Yesterday he said to me I'm going to be at your funeral, you're going to die at 42.
BAKHTIAR: His teenage daughter Tila, said her father no longer welcomes her in his home.
TILA TERRY, RANDALL TERRY'S DAUGHTER: I had sex outside marriage, I got pregnant and I miscarried after about three or four months. I hadn't been speaking with my dad. We haven't been as close as you know we were since I left his house.
BAKHTIAR: His eldest, Ebony, also had two children out of wedlock and became a Muslim.
EBONY WHETSTONE, RANDALL TERRY'S DAUGHTER: It's a whole make of our family is not traditional, by far. So it's not going to be, you know, picture-perfect.
BAKHTIAR: And Randall Terry himself was censored by his church after he had an affair with an assistant. The family split.
The Schindler family wants to save their daughter. But did they have to pick this charletan who won't even speak to his own children to act as their spokesman?
[Crooks and Liars has the video and more on Terry. So does Media Matters.]
He also got tired of his old wife, so he divorced her in favor of a nice, fresh 22-year old. Family values indeed.
Anyway, it's not surprising they picked him given that over two million dollars in legal aid for the Schindlers has come from Operation Rescue and affiliated anti-abortion groups.
According to the February 12, 2000, Washington Post report, Terry was censured by his church, the Landmark Church of Binghamton, New York, for a "pattern of repeated and sinful relationships and conversations with both single and married women." Terry denies the accusation.
But of course, the Terri Schiavo supporters will use any port in a storm, hypocritical or not. They will justify this in some fashion, how, I can only surmise. The means justify the end, just like the communist philosophy.
OK, so now we're commie-like for supporting Terri?
It's amazing what passes as a conservative republican these days.
I'm glad I left the party when I did, 4 years ago.
And what would you be blathering if he were cheering on Terri's death? Would you take any note of his 'hypocracy' [sic]?
I can easily explain, in one word, our support for any one who's fighting for Terri's life.
Mercy.
Is your point that the execution of Terri is justified by the sins of Terry Randall?
Randall Terry is opposed to execution of the disabled. That gives him one up on you. Also, Randall Terry is not a Scientologist.
Even the most wrong of people have a tendency to be right at least once in their life, thank God. Yes, even they can see this issue is more than about politics and that starving a woman to death is wrong unlike you.