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Scott Lively is a noted anti-gay activist and the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization located in Temecula, California.[1] Abiding Truth Ministries is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[2] He is also directly linked to pending Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda that would, if passed, make homosexuality punishable by a lengthy prison sentence or even death.

Along with Kevin E. Abrams, he co-authored the book The Pink Swastika, which states in the preface that "homosexuals [are] the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities."[3] Several academic historians have questioned the book's claims and selective use of research.[4][5][6][7][8]

Lively is the former state director for the California branch of the American Family Association and formed Watchmen on the Walls based in Riga, Latvia.[9]

Lively has called for the criminalization of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" as far back as 2007[10][11] and has been linked to the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill.[12]

According to a January 2011 profile, Lively "has not changed his view that gays are 'agents of America’s moral decline' but has refocused his approach to fit his flock in Springfield [Massachusetts]" and "is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden."[13]

Defend the Family Website

The website's mission statement is to "promote and defend the Biblical view of marriage and family through... [e]ducation[, t]raining[, and f]unding." The "Resources" section sells books by Lively.[14]

Critical responses

In 1991, Lively assaulted Catherine Stauffer, throwing her against a wall and dragging her across the floor of a Portland church, at an Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) event she had been trying to film.[15] Stauffer received a judgment of over $31,000 against Lively and the OCA in 1992.[16][17]

The Southern Poverty Law Center regards Abiding Truth Ministries as a hate group.[18] Lively has responded with his blog HatewatchWatch.

Activism in Uganda

In March 2009, Lively, with Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge, American evangelical Christians, arrived in Kampala to give a series of talks. "The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was 'the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda' — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family".[12]

"[T]housands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians," reportedly attended the conference.[12] Lively and his colleagues "discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how 'the gay movement is an evil institution' whose goal is 'to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.'"[12] Lively wrote days later that "someone had likened their campaign to 'a nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.'"[12]

The talks inspired the development of a private member's Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Ugandan parliament.[19] The bill, submitted in November 2009, called for the death penalty in some cases, and received international opprobrium.[19][20][21]

Lively expressed disappointment that "the legislation was so harsh."[12] "Lively says he recommended an approach rooted in rehabilitation, not punishment and says an anti-gay bill being considered by the Ugandan Parliament goes too far"[22]:

[M]y advice to the parliament was to go the other direction from what they did to actually go on a proactive positive message promoting the family, promoting marriage, etcetera, through the schools, and that if they were going to continue to criminalize homosexuality that they should focus on rehabilitation and not punishment. And I was very disappointed when the law came out as it is written now with such incredibly harsh punishments.[22]

However, Lively has said that he will endorse the bill if the death penalty is removed.[23]

In March 2010, Lively wrote:

In my view, homosexuality (indeed all sex outside of marriage) should be actively discouraged by society -- but only as aggressively as necessary to prevent the mainstreaming of alternative sexual lifestyles, and with concern for the preservation of the liberties of those who desire to keep their personal lifestyles private. Marriage-based culture served humanity very favorably during the centuries when homosexuality was disapproved but tolerated as a sub-culture in America, England and elsewhere. It has obviously not fared well in the decades since the so-called sexual revolution kicked open Pandora’s Box and unleashed both rampant heterosexual promiscuity and "Gay Pride" on the world.



In March of this year I had the privilege of addressing members of the Ugandan parliament in their national assembly hall when the anti-homosexuality law was just being considered. I urged them to pattern their bill on some American laws regarding alcoholism and drug abuse. I cited my own pre-Christian experience being arrested for drunk driving. I was given and chose the option of therapy which turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life. I also cited the policy in some U.S. jurisdictions regarding marijuana. Criminalization of the drug prevents its users from promoting it, and discourages non-users from starting, even while the law itself is very lightly enforced, if at all.[24]

Bibliography

  • The Pink Swastika (1996)[25]
  • Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child: A Parent's Guide to Protecting Children from Homosexuality and the "Gay" Movement (1998)[26]
  • Why and How to Defeat the "Gay" Movement (2000)[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Scott Lively's Bio". The Pro-Family Resource Center of Abiding Truth Ministries. Abiding Truth Ministries. 2002–2008. Retrieved 13 November 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  2. ^ "Active U.S. Hate Groups in 2008 : Anti-Gay". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 06 January 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ^ The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party: Preface to the Fourth Edition, retrieved 2010-04-17
  4. ^ Erik N. Jensen (January/April 2002). "The Pink Triangle and Political Consciousness: Gays, Lesbians, and the Memory of Nazi Persecution". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 11 (1/2): 319–349, pp. 322–323 and n. 19. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ Dorthe Seifert (Fall 2003). "Between Silence and License: The Representation of the National Socialist Persecution of Homosexuality in Anglo-American Fiction and Film". History and Memory. 15 (2): 94–129, p. 94.
  6. ^ "The Other Side of the Pink Triangle: Still a Pink Triangle". October 24, 1994. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
  7. ^ A historian’s analysis of The Pink Swastika, part 1
  8. ^ A historian’s analysis of The Pink Swastika, part 2
  9. ^ "Watchmen Not a Hate Group". Abiding Truth Ministries. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
  10. ^ "Letter to the Russian People". Abiding Truth Ministries. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  11. ^ "Scott Lively Advocated 'Criminalizing Homosexuality' as Far Back as 2007". The Huffington Post. 13 March 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Gettleman, Jeffrey (January 3, 2010), "Americans' Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push", NYTimes.com, New York: New York Times, p. A1, retrieved 2010-02-09
  13. ^ Shift in mission for religious firebrand - Antigay pastor refocuses on aiding Springfield
  14. ^ Defend the Family - a service of Abiding Truth Ministries
  15. ^ Katia Dunn, Honor Thy Debts | Prying Open the OCA's Wallet
  16. ^ "Alliance spokesman guilty of using unreasonable force", The Bulletin, October 6, 1992, retrieved 2009-12-01
  17. ^ Oregon Judicial Department Appellate Court Opinions - Catherine Stauffer v. Oregon Citizen's Alliance
  18. ^ Waddington, Lynda (23 November 2010). "Groups that Helped Oust Iowa Judges Earn 'Hate Group' Designation; SPLC Adds American Family Association, Family Research Council to List". Iowa Independent. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
  19. ^ a b Alsop, Zoe (Dec. 10, 2009), "Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired by the U.S.", TIME Magazine, Time, retrieved 2010-03-01 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ Helping Hand For Homophobia From U.S. Christians
  21. ^ Uganda considers death sentence for gay sex in bill before parliament
  22. ^ a b Michel Martin (18 December 2009). "U.S. Evangelical Leaders Blamed For Uganda Anti-Gay Sentiment". NPR. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  23. ^ Anti-Homosexual Bill In Uganda Causes Global Uproar
  24. ^ "The Death Penalty in Uganda". Abiding Truth Ministries. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  25. ^ Lively, Scott (1996). The Pink Swastika. Founders Publishing Corporation. ISBN 0964760916. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  26. ^ Lively, Scott (1998). Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child. Founders Publishing Corporation. ISBN 0964760959. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  27. ^ Lively, Scott (2000). Why and How to Defeat the "Gay" Movement. Abiding Truth Ministries. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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