Operation Rescue founder denounced by pastor

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Claiming onetime member and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry has behaved “unbiblically” and is guilty of conduct “far short of Christian standards of behavior,” the pastor of Terry’s old church in Binghamton, N.Y., has issued a public “letter of censure” of the militant conservative activist.

“Many of his longtime friends … are shocked and bewildered that a man who has traveled the country pleading with Christian people to think and act biblically is now thinking and acting so anti-biblically on a number of fronts,” Dan Little, pastor of the Landmark Church, wrote in the letter posted on an Operation Save America (formerly known as Operation Rescue) Web site. Terry was an elder of the Landmark Church for 12 years.

In the letter, Little denounces what he called Terry’s “spiritual deterioration” and “lack of purity in speech and lifestyle,’ writing that “Randall is altogether a different person that the one we knew and supported so many years.”
Little also accuses Terry of “leaving his wife in preparation to divorce, annual or otherwise dissolve their Christian marriage” and chastises him “for his unwillingness to repent of this sin.”