Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue and veteran of extremist anti-abortion protests and federal prison, had a new target this week – his old friend Pat Robertson. While many Religious Right figures slammed Robertson for his endorsement of Rudy Giuliani, Terry’s was in its own rhetorical league, blasting Robertson for having been “seduced” by Giuliani’s “hypocritical and seductive evil.”
So we looked for a high-energy event when Terry announced he would protest outside the Washington, D.C. bureau of Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network on Saturday. A Friday release announced a move from the originally planned protest at CBN headquarters in Virginia beach “because a number of young people and college students in the DC area wanted to participate.”
That “number” was apparently in single digits. When the protest got going, Terry was joined by only three others holding anti-Giuliani signs (with devil horns and tail drawn on the G), though the number was up to half a dozen by the time we left.
With no reporters in sight, Terry was happy to speak with us. He called Robertson’s embrace of Giuliani “heartbreaking” and bemoaned what he called the lack of strong voices to replace a passing generation of leaders. He described “the four horsemen” of the Religious Right as Robertson, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, and D. James Kennedy. Two of them are now dead, and one has “lost his way.” Randall is waiting to see if Dobson, who finds Giuliani utterly unacceptable, will take on Robertson directly.
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