Scott Lively

Scott Douglas Lively is an American Christian fundamentalist who pretends to be a historian, blaming gays for nearly everything including communism, Islam, terrorism, the Holocaust, natural disasters, and the price of Saudi oil. 
Oh, and he is also an enthusiastic backer of Donald Trump. What a surprise.
==Pink Swastika==
Lively co-authored, with Kevin Abrams, the book The Pink Swastika, a propaganda piece where Godwin's Law is at work when dealing with homosexuality. In the book, Lively claims that gays are responsible for establishing the Nazi Party. Multiple professional historians have found large numbers of historical inaccuracies in the book.Christine Mueller. "The Other Side of the Pink Triangle: Still a Pink Triangle." Pink Triangle. 1994 October 24.Jon David Wyneken. "A historian’s analysis of The Pink Swastika, part 2." Warren Throckmorton's blog. 2009 June 9."Chapter Five." The Annotated Pink Swastika. 2008 August 28.Citizens Allied for Civic Action. "Annotated Pink Swastika." Queer Resources Directory. 1997 August 9. Sadly, many people detached from reality, wanting gays to look as bad as possible, have bought into it. Lively is also keen to rewrite reality as needed – if called on the fact that 15,000 gays were killed in the Holocaust, Lively will argue that the Nazis in power were butch homosexuals seeking to purge the "femmes" from the population. This is one of Lively's more popular debate tactics - any hate crimes against homosexuals were either faked, examples of "gay-on-gay violence," or exaggerated so that the victim incited a violent response that was nonetheless exaggerated by the media."Scott Lively: Anti-Gay Violence in Russia is Committed by Butch Homosexuals." Joe. My. God. 2013 November 20.Watchmen Leader Gives Bizarre Account of Gay-Bashing Death." Hatewatch. 2007 October 19.
==Uganda==
Lively was sued in a Massachusetts court for "crimes against humanity" by an organization named "Sexual Minorities of Uganda" due to his hand in the infamous Ugandan 'Kill The Gays' bill"Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues U.S. Evangelist", The New York Times 14 March 2012"Judge Clears Path for Groundbreaking Lawsuit against Scott Lively" Southern Poverty Law Center 16 August 2013 passed a month after he visited Uganda. The Liberty Counsel defended him.Liberty Counsel Wants Us To Forget That Scott Lively Helped Craft Uganda’s Anti-LGBT Law Lively denies he has had any influence on the making this law (which he considered a bit "harsh"); instead, he would have preferred legislation that enforced some form of conversion therapy. This comes on the back of Lively giving lectures and saying "the Rwandan stuff involved these guys", pointing to the word "Monster" scribbled on a flipchart and referring to gay people as "the Nazis".Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Uganda and Pepe Julian Onziema Pt. 1 (HBO), 8:02–8:09. The suit was ultimately dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction.Judge dismisses 'crimes against humanity' suit against anti-gay Springfield pastor Scott Lively
==Pro-Family Resource Center==
Lively was responsible for The Pro-Family Resource Center, a webshite full of virulent homophobia.Defend the Family, archived from defendthefamily.com. The resources it promoted include a number of batshit crazy books and articles, as well as links to fake news sites such as Wing Nut Daily, Faux News, and the Washington Times. The site stated that its mission is to "promote and defend the Biblical view of marriage and family through education, training and funding". This is odd, because they don't seem to promote polygamy, the type of marriage showcased in the Old Testament.
The site randomly highlighted 3 of its catalog every day. Some of the more exciting propaganda on the "must read" list included the following:
*Seven Steps To Recruit-Proof Your Child - a parenting guide which advises on how to "protect" your child from "the homosexual agenda."
*The Poisoned Stream - a history of homosexual influences throughout history, particularly in Germany between 1890 and 1945. 
*The Pink Swastika - "proof" that the Nazis were all homosexuals and didn't oppress gays at all, oh, no!
All of their books were classified according to the particular perspective on Good Christian Life (TM) that the site promotes. Anti-family includes articles about mass murderers, or parents who have killed their children; Pro-family on the other hand, appears to be everything else, including articles about the Icky Gay (TM) and his attempts to infiltrate your world and "recruit" your child. Then, in case you don't have enough idea of the article's content from the "pro-family" perspective tag (which appears on nearly every article), there are "topics" which include (all direct quotes) "The Uganda Topic," "The History Topic," "The Legal Issues" topic, and we're sure "The Nearly Gay President" topic. Since virtually all of their articles are in some way about the Big Bad Gay, these subsets should really be understood not as "History" but "History of our discrimination against The Gay" topic, and not as "Uganda and all the various political and social issues there", but "The Big Bad Gay in Uganda, and how someone finally is doing God's work by putting them in jail and even killing them" topic. Don't believe us? Here's what they say about the murder of a gay man:
==Other homophobia==
It goes without saying that Scott Lively has a strong affiliation with those who are opposed to homosexuality on political or religious grounds."A Dozen Major Groups Help Drive the Religious Right’s Anti-Gay Crusade." Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Cente. Spring 2005.Casey Sanchez. "Latvian Anti-Gay Movement Spills Over to U.S." Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Fall 2007. Lively is apparently so desperate for allies that he's decided that anyone who's disagreed with the particular tactics of the gay rights movement is his new best buddy, even when they're not.Ed Brayton. "Awww. Scott Lively Wants to Be Friends." Dispatches from the Culture Wars. 2012 August 1. He has preached against the Human Rights Campaign,Russia Insider (August 3, 2016). "LGBT EXPOSED - Hard-Hitting, Major Russian TV Film (SODOM) HD Eng Dub". YouTube. and his need to drink deeply of the wingnut kool-aid on this issue also involves acting as a major figure in Uganda's anti-gay legislative campaignsJeffrey Gettleman. "Americans’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push." New York Times. 2010 January 3.Brian Tashman. "Scott Lively Defends his Anti-Gay Activism in Uganda while Denying Role in Crafting the Anti-Homosexuality Bill." Right Wing Watch. 2012 May 7. and carrying the torch for Jerome Corsi's hilariously bizarre claim that Barack Obama was once secretly married to his Pakistani roommate.Brian Tashman. "Scott Lively Pushes Claim that Obama Was Once Married to a Man." Right Wing Watch. 2012 August 10. More recently, Lively has claimed that Obama is secretly gay because he... went on a trip with a male aide but without his wife.Anti-gay evangelist Scott Lively claims to have found proof that Obama is gay, PinkNews In Lively's lively imagination, two men travelling together can only mean one thing: constant, pulsating horny gay buttsex, obviously. 
Despite all this, Lively got a bit thin-skinned in August 2012 on the subject of the Southern Poverty Law Center describing him as a virulent homophobe (mainly for his work with Abiding Truth MinistriesEvelyn Schlatter. "18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda." Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Winter 2010.) and demanded that they "CEASE and DESIST labeling (him) as a hater"Ed Brayton. "Lively Wants Off Hate List." Dispatches from the Culture Wars. 2012 August 23. (screaming capital letters his). It's difficult to say why Lively would make any real argument as to why he shouldn't be typified as a professional homophobe, since he's also convinced that it's perfectly okay to threaten mob action against people who don't jump on his paranoia bandwagon.Ed Brayton. "Lively Encourages Mob Violence to Stop ‘Gay Fascism’." Dispatches from the Culture Wars. 2012 September 7.
In a sop to biblical literalists, Lively is also running around trying to convince people of a similar mindset that toleration of homosexuality (or as he puts it, "writing Song of Songs songs to homosexual marriage") was a trigger for Noah's Flood.Scott Lively Warns 'Wedding Songs to Homosexual Marriage' are Responsible for Noah's Flood and End Times, Right Wing Watch Talking of songs, "The Rainbow Belongs To God" (released not by Lively but a Danish pastor living in Israel) is so cringeworthy, it's really worth a watch. In the words of Lively, "You will be blessed by this amazing song".Duffy, Nick. "Anti-gay pastor Scott Lively backs cringeworthy 'Rainbow' song". Pink News. 24 June 2014.
Lively is also the author of 7 Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child,"Contents." Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child. Defend the Family. which features a number 7 on the cover that suspiciously resembles the gay rights lambda symbol, and Redeeming the Rainbow, which is currently only in e-book format and has a gay rights rainbow flag design on the cover. We'll abstain from any Haggard's Law accusations, especially as Lively has made a point of explicitly stating that he is not gay in a 2010 interview with Jason Jones on The Daily Show.Gay Reichs - The Daily Show 2:23-2:33.
He's also fond of Imprecatory prayer-fueled strangeness that includes God as a strip club-burning vigilantePastor Scott Lively: Maybe God blew up Scores strip club; Springfield explosion was 'answer to our prayers', Masslive.com and a casino-destroying capo di tutti i capi.Scott Lively's Mafia God, Dispatches from the Culture Wars His website DefendtheFamily.com took a step further down in similar-smelling muck when it asserted that an increase in cases of bacterial meningitis among gay men was a form of divine judgment.Scott Lively Links Gay Man's Death from Meningitis to Divine Judgment, Right Wing Watch 
Lively actually took credit for Russia's passage of extremely repressive laws banning free speech in order to combat what he subtly deemed "homosexual propaganda".Lively Loves Bigoted Russian Oppression, Dispatches from the Culture Wars He also thinks that Russia is now a "beacon of freedom" due to its war against T3h Ev1l Gay (comparing it to the struggle against Nazism, of course); conversely, he now thinks that the US and UK are both morphing into gay versions of the Soviet Union, whatever that means.Lively: Russia A 'Beacon Of Freedom' While US Is A 'Gay Version Of The Soviet Union', Right Wing Watch
 
He's an American, but his organization Watchman on the Walls is based in, of all places, Latvia. He has also appeared in a majorly homophobic Russian TV film Sodom (copying his Ugandan tactics of promoting homophobia abroad), preaching all kinds of nonsense about the LGBT community to a greater audience, such as linking LGBT rights to the CIA, MK ULTRA, transhumanism, free love, surrogacy and "genetic manipulation to remove memory" by mixing human genetics with those of other animals, and the Ukrainian revolution.
==Anti-semitism==
Having too much hatred bottled inside of him to only unleash on gays, Lively has also railed against "fake Jews", who he sees as promoting the gay agenda and whatnot. Like most right-wing cranks, he also promotes a cornucopia of conspiracy theories surrounding George Soros.http://www.scottlively.net/2017/12/25/the-fake-jews-behind-fake-news-and-the-true-jews-whose-friends-are-few/
==Stopped clock==
Scott Lively has attacked Milo Yiannopoulos and accused him of being a Nazi, though only because he links all gays to Nazism rather and not because of any of Milo's racist remarks, which are par for the course among extreme, Trump-loving right-wingers like Lively.http://www.scottlively.net/2017/02/02/milo-yiannopoulos-and-the-rise-of-american-nazism/ http://www.scottlively.net/2017/02/04/milo-yiannopoulos-and-the-rise-of-american-nazism-part-2/ http://www.scottlively.net/2017/02/08/milo-yiannopoulos-and-the-rise-of-american-nazism-part-3/
==See also==
*Pink-baiting
*Godwin's Law
*Jonah Goldberg
*Historical revisionism
*WND
*Question of Homosexuality — a speech by Himmler about homosexuality
*Nazism and homosexuality
==External links==
*More related Hitler misconceptions
*"The rainbow belongs to God": an NBC report on Lively's international activities
*A short graphic novel illustrating the climate of hate that Lively has spawned in Uganda.
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