My wife & I have worked with Randall numerous times over the years.  We have stayed in his home in upstate N.Y.  We worked on his 1998 U.S. congressional campaign.  While we were working on the campaign, the question of the lawsuit came up.  He told all of us who were working with him that he "had to settle the suit" so that he could make his congressional run.

 

Although I don't like the idea of settling with the enemy on anything, I would not have been as concerned about this settlement if I hadn't seen other things & signs of things to come.  In retrospect, the things I saw should have warned me, or any other observer, about what was happening in  R.T.s life, that eventually led to his abandoning the "wife of his youth" and his children, at least one of which he had been involved in saving from abortion.

 

After Randall divorced his first (and biblically only) wife Cindy, he sold the property they had when we had been working on the campaign.  That property included a nice, large house and a motel.   After he sold the property, his half of the proceeds were given over to help settle the agreement that he had entered into with NOW over the suit.

 

Subsequently, he sent out fund-raising letters that stated that his property had been "seized" from him by NOW, through the suit.  In my mind this was a patently false statement, a canard, a lie.

 

Perhaps I should have spoken up, publicly, a long time ago.  No!  I SHOULD have spoken out!  I did relate what I knew to some pro-life leaders who were aware of our involvement in the campaign.  However, I also wished I had spoken up about those signs that I observed in WIndsor, N.Y. which, on retrospect were warnings of the changes that were about to happen in his familial status.

 

In the course of all these things, I have learned a biblical lesson the hard way.  I have learned not to "fear men's faces".  In other words, I have learned that, no matter how much I respect someone, they are still human.  Their feet are still made of clay.  They are still sinners.  I cannot hold my tongue because of their status.  I cannot believe that "given who they are, they would never do such a thing".

 

In these things, we must be the watchmen on the wall.