Randall Terry: Roman Catholic
By Gary North
Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, has
converted to Roman Catholicism.
http://www.ncregister.com/articulo4.php?artkod=NDY1
Our gain is their loss.
He is running for political office in Florida. He
told me 17 years ago that he intended to run for President
some day.
As to what his abandoned first wife and their children
think of this, I do not know. But I can guess.
On September 4, 2003, I sent the following information
to this mailing list:
Two men virtually eliminated anti-abortion
activism in the United States after 1994: Paul
Hill and Randall Terry. They became the visible
symbols of anti-abortion activism, both for the
pro-abortionists and for anti-abortionists. The
two of them cut the heart out of the activists.
Four years after Hill's crime, in 1998,
Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, abandoned
his wife of 19 years, along with their four
children (three were adopted), and then declared
bankruptcy, so that the National Organization of
Women would get off his back. This declaration
deprived his wife of their home. He then married
his assistant, 16 years his junior, age 22.
Without informing his followers of what he had
done to his wife and children, he sent out a
fund-raising letter to his supporters, who
responded faithfully, whereupon he bought a
$432,000 home -- not in New York state, where he
could see his children regularly, but in Florida,
where the state's bankruptcy laws don't permit
creditors to get your home. His church in New
York had brought him under discipline before the
marriage, but he paid no attention.
See:
http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/world-mag-exposes-randall-terry.htm
Think of the three adopted children. They
were Afro-Americans. Their mother had been a
drug addict. The Terrys adopted them, giving
them a stable home. Then Terry's roving eye
caught sight of a younger woman. "Hello, baby!
Goodbye, kids!"
As for his new wife, all I can say is this:
to trade Jesus for Randall Terry is a poor trade.
Naturally, his shenanigans are a cause for
gloating within the pro-abortion crowd. Here is
one more example of commitment by a Christian
leader to the same ethics of situational
convenience that the abortionists proclaim, one
more case of Christian leadership run amok,
leaving God-fearing followers, as always, out in
the cold, wondering what had happened. Here is
one more example of selective moral outrage,
selective ethics, and what R. J. Rushdoony called
smorgasbord religion.
Terry actually told the press that the Bible
doesn't oppose divorce, but it does oppose
homosexuality. This, despite the clear teaching
of Jesus that anyone who divorces his or her
spouse without judicial cause thereby commits
adultery -- a capital crime under the Mosaic law
(Lev. 20:10) -- by remarrying.
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall
put away his wife, and marry another,
committeth adultery against her. And if
a woman shall put away her husband, and
be married to another, she committeth
adultery (Mark 10:11-12).
At least his church brought him under
discipline even before he remarried. It is a
characteristic feature of our era that most
churches hesitate to bring public discipline,
while other churches, always short of funds,
welcome disciplined Christians with open arms.
"We're under grace, not law!"
I received letters of outrage from a few of his
followers. They were committed to him, not to biblical
truth. If they stuck with him, they must now feel
betrayed. They were standard antinomian Protestants. Now
they must think through their commitment. My guess is that
they will now quietly abandon him. They may be
antinomians, but they are still Protestants.
Randall Terry was always a loose canon. I spent many
hours trying to counsel him. He took no counsel from
anyone I ever spoke with about him. His organization stood
for something. So did he: political ambition.
May God grant us the grace to keep our priorities
straight and consistent with his. May we heed the warning
of James:
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth
not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask
in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth
is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind
and tossed. For let not that man think that he
shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double
minded man is unstable in all his ways (James
1:5-8).
Sincerely,
Gary North
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