Randall Terry is no match for Obama

[proud2BlibKansan]

AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Jim Rider

Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, left, is stopped on his way to the University of Notre Dame administration building in South Bend, Ind., by a Notre Dame police officer, on April 30, 2009.

May 17, 2009 | Randall Terry, the aging warrior of Operation Rescue, is now leading the charge against the University of Notre Dame for inviting President Obama to deliver its commencement address on Sunday, and for awarding him an honorary doctorate. Terry has been damaging the antiabortion cause for the last 25 years, and his Obama protest will likewise fall flat.

The Operation Rescue zealot turned off a lot of working-class people who were nervous about whether abortion might have become "too easy" years back, by unleashing a few thousand die-hards who began chaining themselves to clinic doors and barging into operating rooms in the '70s to "save the babies." The idea that anything goes in fighting abortion died along with five abortion providers and one clinic escort shot to death between 1993 and 1998. Unapologetic, Terry recently converted to Catholicism, and was arrested at Notre Dame walking around with a stroller occupied by a baby doll covered in blood.

Now Terry, Alan Keyes and other Catholic extremists will besiege Notre Dame on Sunday, trying to get some press for their goal of making abortion illegal -- a position that has been abandoned by just about everyone in the antiabortion movement, and rejected by a majority of Catholics. Obama tossed the final shovelful of sand into their grave when he combined the "visionary" proposition that women are best suited to make the decision about what to do when they get pregnant, with the pragmatic goal of making the abortion decision less necessary. That's change many progressive, pro-life Catholics can believe in.

The Catholic bishops have taken an equally hard line on abortion, although one is not likely to see any of them wheeling baby buggies with Terry. Seventy-four of the nation's 300 bishops have publicly criticized Notre Dame for its invitation to Obama and it appears there will be no red or violet zuchetti interspersed with academic mortarboards and tams on the dais. What a shame that U.S. church officials are so single-minded on abortion that they cannot honor our president. It was Notre Dame's former president Ted Hesburgh who decried the bishops' unyielding opposition to abortion, by noting that they were willing to see candidates for public office who agreed with the church's social agenda 95 percent of the time lose to those who only agreed with us on abortion.

more . . . http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/17/notre_dame/?source=newsletter

[cali]

1. Terry creeps me out.

I really hope he hasn't planted some of his assholes in the audience today.

[jgraz]

2. Randall Terry is no match for the dump I just took

Fuck him.

[cali]

5. Oh, I don't know about that. My bet is that he's bigger and stinkier

[jgraz]

7. OK, you win the morning gross-out contest

:P

Going back to my coffee now.

[saltpoint]

3. President Obama, following a tradition of U.S. presidents addressing

graduates at Notre Dame and other universities, will likely offer an eloquent and insightful address to significantly attentive and appreciative ears at the ceremony while Terry and lesser-known reactionaries pee on themselves outside.

End of story.

[countingbluecars]

4. Has Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch

arrived at the protest yet or has the bloody doll in the stroller replaced him as Terry's new mascot?

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. They are flying a plane overhead that is dragging a banner with a pic of an aborted fetus

but they said once Obama is there, air space will be restricted and the plane won't be able to fly.

[Bluzmann57]

6. Randall Terry is no match for my dead grandmother

Or my two year old grandson, or any other rational human being. He is just a walking talking piece of dog crap.

[kestrel91316]

9. He converted to Catholicism? What, the Protestant fundie sects

threw him out??

There's nothing that man won't do for attention. What a whore.

Oh, and why isn't he in jail? I thought he got put away for a LONG time.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Seems Catholicism is trendy among the right wing wackos lately

Didn't Newt just convert also?

Maybe these idiots think the Opus Dei dominionazis have a better chance of bringing about their so-called "Kingdom of God" on Earth than the Protestant dominionazis do?

Even though the whole idea of dominionism is in total contradiction to the teachings of JC, who said "My kingdom is NOT of this world."

[asphalt.jungle]

10. Why is he using a representation of a >6 months old baby in a stroller?

He's trying to get his point across with a bloody doll, but killing a >6 month old baby (as this doll is depicting) would be murder. If a fertilized egg is the same as a >6 month old baby then he should be walking around with ketchup covered cracked eggs in a stroller.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Some of those horrible pictures they use

I swear have to be dolls with makeup. They are far too mature looking to be aborted fetuses. More like 6 month old babies with ketchup all over them.

[Catshrink]

13. Randall Terry = domestic terrorist

Call him Randall Terrorist. He's marginalized, just like the rest of them. They come out when there's an opportunit to get attention.

BTW, who's the biggest whack job, Randall Terry or Fred Phelps? I think it's a toss up.