The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Out in the Terry family: Randall Terry says his son's coming-out was a betrayal, and he's still determined to deny "special civil rights" to gays.(Behind the Headlines)(Interview)

Outraged by his son Jamiel's public coming-out in the May issue of Out magazine, antigay and militant antiabortion activist Randall Terry published his own essay on the far-right Web site WorldNetDaily.com. He accused the magazine of recruiting his 24-year-old son, whom he took in as an 8-year-old foster child, and publishing lies about his family.

Randall Terry originally entered the public eye as founder of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. He went to jail for having a fellow abortion opponent bring an aborted fetus to then--presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992, and he went bankrupt after women's groups won huge civil suits against him in the 1990s. In …

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