Answer: It's Randall Terry!
From his webiste:
Thank you so much for your desire to help restore to Randall Terry what the enemies of life "stole." Your gift will help Randall rebuild his life and public ministry. Any gift you give is not in any danger of being seized by Randall's political enemies. Those lawsuits and judgments are over, and the fund you are giving to is safe from seizure.
To make a contribution to "restore what the enemy took," please make your check payable to the Terry Family Trust, and send it to:
The Terry Family Trust
PO Box 131568
Houston, TX 77219-1568
And remember - tell your friends what happened to Randall Terry and invite them to view this web site and to give a gift to restore what the enemy took. And please... ask your pastor to visit this site and to consider a special gift from your church to show support to Randall and his family. (The Terry Family Trust is not a charitable corporation. Gifts are not tax-deductible.)
Thank you for your contribution. God bless you.
Media Matters has a great piece explaing who Randall Terry is.
As CNN noted on March 4, 1998, Terry was named in a lawsuit -- seeking to "force anti-abortion leaders to pay for damages caused in clinic attacks" -- which was filed by the National Organization for Women (NOW) under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, and Terry settled with NOW out of court. The New York Times reported on November 8, 1998, that Terry "filed for bankruptcy last week in an effort to avoid paying massive debts owed to women's groups and abortion clinics that have sued him." As the Los Angeles Times reported on February 28, Terry's use of bankruptcy law to avoid paying for the judgments against him helped prompt Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) to propose an amendment to the bankruptcy bill recently passed by Congress that "specifically would prevent abortion opponents from using the bankruptcy code to escape paying court fines," although it was not included in the final version of the bill. Versions of that amendment appeared in earlier versions of the bankruptcy bill, which stalled action on it in 2002 and 2003 when "a core of House Republicans balked" at the provision, the Los Angeles Times noted.
According to a June 14, 2003, report by the conservative World Magazine (no longer available online, but reprinted on the right-wing bulletin board Free Republic), Terry solicited donations by declaring on his website that "The purveyors of abortion on demand have stripped Randall Terry of everything he owned," but failed to disclose that the money would be used to pay for his new $432,000 house. The report noted Terry's defense: "Terry told World that he wanted a home where his family will be safe and where 'we could entertain people of stature, people of importance. I have a lot of important people that come through my home. And I will have more important people come through my home.' " World noted that the same month he paid the deposit on his new home, a court ruled that Terry, who divorced his first wife and has remarried, "was not paying a fair share of child support." In an article on his website, Terry denounced the World report as "journalistic trash, a 'hit piece' of malice and misinformation."
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