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[TheConservator]

Who is Randall Terry?

[billorites]

This drags me way deeper into a family than I'm comfortably willing to go.

I wish the best for all.

[MEG33]

Heartbreaking article.

[rageaholic]

That guy should just disown the ungrateful litte pervert, change the locks, rewrite his will and be done with it instead of publishing his stupid family hissy fit on the internet.

Man, sometimes I wonder if the Ayatohla was right, maybe we really are the Great Satan?

[jess35]

Sometimes, you reap what you sow.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

He sings like an angel, he plays the piano, he's a great cook.

Hmm, I hate to tell you this, but it sounds like your son might be gay!

But seriously, one the one hand I can sympathize with Terry's situation. It does sound as if his son was exploited for purposes of embarrassing Randall Terry.

On the other hand, Terry's major complaint is that the son and Out magazine have violated Terry's privacy. But Terry himself then violates his son's privacy in the worst possible way, giving a laundry list of all of his problems, and possibly even exposing him to criminal prosecution with some of his allegations:

He was recently arrested for DWI; he is knowingly writing bad checks on a closed bank account; he dropped out of school; he doesn't have a job (and refuses to get one); he bounces from house to house living off other people; he's racked-up huge bills for friends and family that he cannot pay; he's been taken to court by former friends to get him to pay money he owed them; he's lied to his friends, telling them his "famous dad" was going to send him money to pay for his debts (I get calls or e-mails from college friends looking for money); he has "borrowed" money from countless numbers of my friends; he has a trail of wrecked friendships and family relationships because of deceit, money fraud and crossed boundaries

True, the son "started" it. But do two wrongs make a right? Couldn't Terry have found a way to make his point without dragging every detail of his son's sordid life through the press?

[onyx]

I don't want to ping anyone to this article,
but I hope a lot of FReepers come across it.

[billhilly]

What a pathetic parent. We all need to know how wonderful he was to take children off the street and adopt them? Now we need to know more about his need to to be known? No. We do not.

We reap what we sow.

[Cicero]

I'm very sorry to hear this. I have always admired Randall Terry. Adoption can sometimes work out wonderfully, but it can also lead to terrible problems carrying over.

This could happen to anyone's child, no matter how good a parent they were or no matter whether or not the child is adopted. In the end, there comes a point where young people must take responsibility for their own lives and actions.

Very sad. And very tough to publicize this problem; but it was already publicized and politicized by the pimps who paid his son to do this.

[DoughtyOne]

Sadly there is no rhyme or reason to things that growing kids do. They get caught up in the moment and the history with the parents is both forgotten and betrayed.

On this thread some people are throwing around the 'reap what you've sewn' mantra. Folks, you don't know what you're talking about. The writer has other children who are doing just fine. Do you think he reaped differently with them than the prodigal?

Here is a guy who has written an article about what has taken place in his family. The article is one small effort to make a public statement when his son has published and article in a nationwide magazine, and participated in interviews on CNN. I doubt Terry relished the idea of airing this in public, but I doubt he could stomach allowing his son to air untruths that would go unresponded to.

Folks, if you can't understand the grief this guy is having to deal with, please go to another thread and contribute there in a positive manner. This article deals with a very real issue and doesn't deserve to be trashed.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

He would make a powerful lawyer and a formidable politician

Still could, Terry.

[nuconvert]

I don't think he needed to include a laundry list of his son's misdeeds.

[Zeroisanumber]

I know that his kid went public, but isn't a public response just going to add fuel to the fire? I hadn't even heard of the matter until I read this post, and now his family's problems are going to be all over the news.

[LibKill]

My son is being paraded around as the latest homosexual "trophy" that had the guts to "come out." What they aren't telling you – and this grieves me to my core – is that by anyone's standard – homosexual or heterosexual – my son's life is in shambles. He was recently arrested for DWI; he is knowingly writing bad checks on a closed bank account; he dropped out of school; he doesn't have a job (and refuses to get one); he bounces from house to house living off other people; he's racked-up huge bills for friends and family that he cannot pay; he's been taken to court by former friends to get him to pay money he owed them; he's lied to his friends, telling them his "famous dad" was going to send him money to pay for his debts (I get calls or e-mails from college friends looking for money); he has "borrowed" money from countless numbers of my friends; he has a trail of wrecked friendships and family relationships because of deceit, money fraud and crossed boundaries – a mirror image of the home he was in from birth to 8.

It may be because of this or that or the other thing, but besides being homosexual, the kid is a bum, a leech, a conman, a lowlife.

It's not surprising that this bad seed would take 5K to cr-p on his father in writing.

I'm really sorry for Randall Terry, he did his best and he got this in return.

[Spruce]

Men are a product of their father.

[John Lenin]

Sad story, the poor guy poured his heart into this kid and he got backstabbed.

[shrinkermd]

It would be interesting to discover how the sister has done. If she dethroned him in being successful, this young man may be secretly competing to be the worst of the worst. If he can't be the best, he will be the worst. By doing so, in a peculiar way, he becomes first and at the same time obtains vengence on his parents he does not believe he can measure up to.

[TheSpottedOwl]

This is very sad.

[St.Chuck]

A father in anguish should be in our prayers. A son with so many symptoms of a disordered mind and tortured soul should have even more. It is a tragedy for those involved.