I’ve read somewhere that Randall Terry is staging a comeback in the pro-life community. I know some people love him and others think he’s a shyster. I honestly don’t know enough about him to know which is true but I do know that theatrically stabbing baby dolls and pretending to kill a little old lady while dressed as a doctor doesn’t help.
And it’s not that I’m against using humor to get serious points across as evidenced by just about anything we’ve written here in the past two years but this just seems a little low-rent and ill thought out.
But look, I know that sometimes ideas that seem great in your head just don’t work in reality and maybe that’s the case here. But this little stunt seems less aimed at actually changing people’s minds than it seems aimed at getting picked up by the media.
I’m interested in what you guys think.
HT Jill Stanek
September 2, 2009 at 3:00 am
"If you don't care for Terry's particular demonstrations, that is alright, but do something else that will help 'keep the pot boiling'."
But… but… it's not respectable. I won't get invited to those fancy $100-a-plate prayer breakfasts. The mainstream Amalgamated Right to Life Incorporated will take me off their prestigious mailing list. My bishop won't include me in his golf game foursome.
How am I supposed to make a difference if I can't get my picture taken with someone important while doing it?
You don't understand.
September 2, 2009 at 5:42 am
What are all you critics of Randall Terry doing
to stop the slaughtering of innocent children.
Something that is not unseemly I hope. Maybe
you should talk to the nurse who was forced to
help pull the limbs of a 22 week old baby how
unseemly that was. Or Jill do you still have
nightmares of watching that precious little
boy born with Downs that was being thrown
away, die in your arms ? I guess that wasn't
unseemly. Or the babies that are stabbed in
the back of the head and their brains sucked
out —is that less unseemly than the street
theature that is getting public attention. It
sounds like all of you are only about one thing
and that's about you all not being unseemly.
God save your, poor, pathetic,weak souls.
Missy Smith
September 3, 2009 at 8:12 am
To the question is Randall Terry helping? YES YES YES
There was so much media coverage on blogs, on major news media of the baby-stabbing granny-stabbing acts. Even pro-aborts were complaining how the prolifers stole the show at the pro-death led townhall meeting by Moran and Dean. It bolstered the other prolifers and those against the healthcare reform to be bold and chime in. (Note video –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GnqJLARUrE )
Thank God for Randall Terry and his supporters having the guts to go beyond one's confort zone on behalf of the slaughter of innocent children.
People won't remember what Moran said but they'll remember the baby-stabbing granny-stabbing acts and the "We won't pay for murder", "Howard Dean is a baby-killer" lines.