The Pink Swastika 5th Edition

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Pastor Scott

Today we are launching The Pink Swastika 5th Edition with a “beta” version of Chapter 1 in PDF format. 

http://www.scottlively.net/tps/tps1.pdf

 This book severely undermines the “victim plunder” strategy of the “gay” movement and as such is bitterly hated by “gay” activists and their allies.  Indeed, when a Riverside County, CA area journalist asked the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (at my prompting) what it would take for me to be dropped from their list of “hate groups,” they said “Recant The Pink Swastika.” Frankly, I don’t want to be dropped from that list, because, considering who they are, it is a badge of honor to be so designated. But I’m raising this to show how deeply they are bothered by The Pink Swastika.

We won’t recant because The Pink Swastika tells the truth. It is documentary evidence from recent human history that God’s perspective in the Bible about homosexuality and its destructiveness to society is true. 

This 5th Edition emphasizes the strength of our documentation which will be especially irksome to another of our left-wing critics, Warren Throckmorton.  He has devoted a fair amount of effort to try to “debunk” the book.  Most of his arguments are petty and snipe at minor issues around the periphery of the thesis.  Like most of his fellow Pink Swastika haters he cannot address the book point by point since so very much of it is unassailable.  This edition makes that fact all the clearer.   

The Pink Swastika is being published in a more portable form for easy distribution. Feel free to download and pass it along.  It is quite a large file but can be emailed between gmail accounts (which have a 25mb limit) or downloaded on a flash drive.  The easiest way to distribute it is just to send the link.  You have our permission to do all of these things.

This Chapter 1, Version 1.1 is the first in a series of releases that will eventually culminate in the publication of a single finished work.

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Second Attack by SMUG and CCR

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Pastor Scott

This week Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an Amended Complaint in their U.S. federal lawsuit against me for “Crimes Against Humanity.” It is better written than the original but still boils down to nothing more than an attempt to define my Biblical views against homosexuality as a crime. You can read it here:

Amended Complaint – against Scott Lively as dated 071312

Clearly, this lawsuit is intended not only to silence me as an effective voice of opposition to the “gay” agenda, it is also to intimidate everyone else who would dare to follow my example.

But I am not intimidated, and I intend to use whatever notoriety these bullies create for me to advance the cause of Christ. Such an opportunity was my trip to Springfield MO last week to oppose the anti-discrimination “Gay Fascism” bill now before their city council. Because I got involved there was controversy, which brought public attention to an ordinance the city council wanted to sneak under the radar. Citizens are now activated. We might just kill that bill.

Jesus set the example of courage under persecution, just as He set the rules for family and sexuality that I am striving imperfectly to defend. The entire culture war is about the Biblical World View. Cowards and man-pleasers in the so-called “emergent” church shrink from defending it in the face of homo-fascism. The remnant refuse to yield to the bullies, and are taking our lumps — the first wave of a coming tsunami of persecution of true Christians.

The sheep and goats are being divided, and the Lord is using the issue of homosexuality as the divider — just as it was the “final straw” for Him regarding the Great Flood and at Sodom.

This lawsuit epitomizes the ongoing rise of homo-fascism in America, meaning the authoritarian abuse of power to suppress all opposition to “gay“ ideology. At this stage it is still mostly limited to abuses of the processes available (supposedly) to all Americans in our systems of courts, media, schools and colleges, etc because they don’t yet have full control of the seats of power themselves. Soon, if the trend of growing “gay” power continues, these systems will simply embrace “gay” ideology as the new norm and the current pretense of respect for the equality of opposing views will end.

All of the liberals rhetoric about freedom of speech is already ringing hollow in the face of their support of “anti-discrimination” laws that trump the First Amendment in court rulings, and in the complicity of “mainstream” media and academia in “gay” misrepresentations of every aspect of their lifestyle and agenda.

This lawsuit represents a direct assault on the First Amendment and there is no guarantee in the current climate that they will not win.

But by His grace, win or lose, at any cost, I will continue to speak the truth of God.

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Springfield MO Update

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Pastor Scott

We held our Community Action Meeting against the “Gay Fascism Bill” at the public library Friday evening at 7PM.  It was a standing-room-only crowd of just over 80 people, about 4 or 5 to 1 pro-family.  Several of the pro-“gay” participants filmed my talk, no doubt to glean more evidence of my “hate” against homosexuals in their never-ending but fruitless campaign to silence me through slander and intimidation.  One of these agents was supposedly sent by the most devoted chapter of my fan club, the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization which is the subject of occasional imprecatory prayer by me:  “Lord God bring this evil Anti-Christ organization down by your mighty hand!  And in such a way that is unmistakably You, Lord, and not by the hand or action of any human being or group.  Save the people.  Destroy their organization.” 

I was very encouraged both by the turnout and the enthusiasm of the crowd to take on the challenge of killing the so-called “sexual orientation antidiscrimination ordinance.”  The coverage in the Springfield newspaper was also surprisingly balanced.  http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120714/NEWS06/307140028/Springfield-anti-discrimination-ordinance-gays-Lively

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Report from Springfield MO

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Pastor Scott

I flew in yesterday from Springfield MA to Springfield MO to try to stop the “Gay Fascism Bill” (the so-called “sexual orientation” anti-discrimination ordinance) from being voted in by the City Council here.  Minor success already in that they have now postponed the vote due to public attention to the issue caused by my visit.  I made the front page of the Springfield News Leader at  http://www.news-leader.com/comments/article/20120712/NEWS06/307120055/Scott-Lively-gay-rights-City-Council

Here is my reply to several comments following the story on the newspaper webpage:  “This is Pastor Scott Lively responding to Ms. Smith and others. We are not a ‘hate group’ just because the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center says so (Google them), and I did not advocate nor support the Ugandan bill as written. My book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party has not been ‘discredited’ by anyone but ‘gay’ activists and their flunkies. It is one of the most thoroughly documented books you will ever read, relying on the most respected and credible mainstream sources of the 1940s thru 1960s. I do not nor have I ever espoused hate or promoted violence toward homosexuals or any other group. Unfortunately, many “gay” activists and their allies are very dishonest about their own agenda and the people who disagree with them. My detailed flyer about the Springfield “Gay Fascism” bill is …[below] and explains the danger of this ordinance. This is NOT San Francisco, the left does not have a majority here. Springfield Christians and other people of traditional values can easily defeat this bill if they simply stand up and oppose it.”

A prior version of this comment disappeared from the site so I had to re-write it.  Hope it stays up this time.  Could have been my mistake (we’ll know if the second version disappears).

Here is a copy of the ordinance: Ordinance Spfld MO

A few key points I will bring up in my presentation at the Public Library tonight:

1.  The “Gay” Political Machine long ago hijacked the Civil Rights Movement and has ever since exploited it for its own selfish ends.

2.  The political instrument called the Human Rights Commission is often nothing more than a Trojan Horse to advance the “gay” agenda past the outer defenses of the local government.  That is its primary purpose in these cases.  It is driven by “gay” activists, hidden behind an ethnic minority  figurehead who is almost always either an in-the-closet homosexual, a pro-“gay” liberal, or a “clueless” stooge who doesn’t know or care that he is being used.  The “gays” bundle their issues together with those of legitimate minorities as a “package deal,” relying on public sympathy for the authentic civil rights concerns of ethnic groups to make their own demands less unpalatable.

3.  Often but not always “gay” and leftist activists in the local media conspire with the Human Rights Commission to create the public perception that legislation is necessary or desireable to counter “a rising tide of bigotry” in the community.  When, inevitably, genunine hate crimes occur, these incidents are highlighted and magnified to suggest (falsely) that existing legal policies and protections are insufficient and that additional legislation is necessary.   

3.  The passage of an “anti–discrimination ordinance based on sexual orientation” represents the capture of the seat of government by “gay” activists, to be thenceforth weilded as a shield against all efforts to curtail the expansion of “gay” power, and as a sword against their opponents, primarily Christians.  It criminalizes “discrimination” against homosexual conduct and lifestyles, granting “gay” activists legal standing to litigate against “discriminators.” 

4.  Lawsuits based on “anti-discrimination” laws then become the primary tool of social engineering.  Key opponents such as people of strong religious faith are deliberately targeted to be made an example of, so that the rest of the public shrinks from speaking against homosexuality out of fear. 

5. The “sexual orientation anti-discrimination ordinance” is the seed the contains the entire tree of the homosexual agenda with all of its poisonous fruit: “gay” marriage, “gay” adoption, taxpayer funding of “gay” projects, etc..  Once it takes root, the local “gay” activist community grows continuously stronger and bolder while their opponents grow continuously weaker and more timid. 

I will make myself available to assist any conservative community in the United States to stop these “Gay Fascism” bills. 

I further urge these communities to pro-actively move the ball in the opposite direction through the use of legislation such as my “Model Family First Ordinance” on Page 181 of my book Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the “Gay” Agenda (see sidebar at home page).

 

 

 

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CHRISTIAN RED ALERT

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Pastor Scott

CHRISTIAN RED ALERT  (click here for downloadable PDF)

Image of Gay Militants Bash Back members, who disrupted a Michigan church service by flinging condoms around the sanctuary.  “Gay” Fascism is on the rise in America.

SPRINGFIELD IS NOT SAN FRANCISCO.  STOP THE “GAY FASCISM” BILL

Friends,

The City of Springfield Missouri has announced it’s intention to “consider”** an ordinance to give homosexuals extraordinary new powers to silence and punish Christian landlords and businesses through civil rights lawsuits.

Framed as an “anti-discrimination” measure it is in reality a “Gay Fascism” Bill that will make disapproval of homosexuality illegal in the City of Springfield and grant gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders (GLBTs) legal standing to sue their opponents, primarily Christians.

Starting in the 1980s in cities like San Francisco, homosexuals have forced many U.S. cities and numerous states to adopt similar “Gay Fascism” laws with disastrous effects on Christian landlords and businesses.  Empowered by recent successes, they are now pushing into conservative cities.

As soon as a city criminalizes discrimination against homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism through one of these bills, GLBT activists backed by anti-Christian law firms begin targeting people of strong religious faith and traditional values with civil rights lawsuits.

Under Vermont’s anti-discrimination law two lesbians sued the Wildflower Inn in 2011 for refusing to host a lesbian “wedding.”  Now over a year later the case is still in litigation at great personal and emotional cost to the owners of this family friendly resort.

In March of this year a Lexington Kentucky T-Shirt printing company called Hands On Originals was fined $6,600 for refusing to print shirts for a local homosexual festival, despite (more likely because of) stating prominently on its home page that it is a “Christian Outfitter,” reserving a “right of refusal” to decline business in conflict with its beliefs.

E-Harmony, the online Christian dating site was sued in 2008 under one of these “Gay Fascism” laws in New Jersey and “forced” to create a dating site for homosexuals at enormous expense and in a severe compromise of its values.

At Augusta State University in Georgia, Christian student Jennifer Keeton was expelled in 2010 from the graduate counseling program over her disapproval of homosexuality.  In June of 2012 a court ruled that the college’s anti-discrimination policy trumped Keeton’s 1st Amendment religious rights.

These and many other examples of “homo-fascism” are only possible because of anti-discrimination laws based on “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”

What is worse, much worse, in a strategic political sense is that an “anti-discrimination policy” based on “sexual orientation” is the seed that contains the entire homosexual agenda with all of its poisonous fruit, including “gay” marriage, “gay” adoption, and heavy taxpayer funding of “gay” programs and projects.  Wherever the seed takes root, “gay” power and control just keeps growing until it supplants traditional family values with San Francisco-style sexual anarchy in every social and political sphere.

SPRINGFIELD IS NOT SAN FRANCISCO.  STOP THE “GAY FASCISM” BILL

Last year in the conservative country of Moldova, I led a successful campaign to kill an “anti-discrimination” bill very much like this one.  I believe the same strategy can work in a conservative city like Springfield MO.  The key is to give up trying to appear “nice” and “reasonable” to the media and get aggressive (not violent) in our posture and rhetoric.

If this agenda is as bad as we say it is, AND IT IS, we should start letting our words and actions match the threat!!

It’s time to PUSH BACK.

In Jesus, the Lord of Hosts,

Dr. Scott Lively

PS.  I’ll be in Springfield from July 12 thru 15th for meetings, training seminars and street activism.  Contact me at sdllaw@gmail.com if you would like to join me there.

** “Consider?”  In my experience, the homosexuals never bring forth one of these bills unless that think they already have the votes to pass it.  The public comment period is all for show.  Our side has grown weary of losing all of these battles (and many have given up and gone home long ago) after great effort to work “within the system” by getting people to the city council meetings.

Yes, we need to be at those meetings but these battles are not won in the hearing room, they are won on the street!  We need a public outcry against this bill and put real fear in the hearts of these representatives that they will hurt their political careers by going down this road.

SPRINGFIELD IS NOT SAN FRANCISCO.  STOP THE “GAY FASCISM” BILL

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The Global Threat of Homosexuality

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Pastor Scott

My January 15, 2012 sermon at Resurrection Life Church in Sacramento was banned on YouTube as “hate speech” but Brian Camenker has now posted it on his site and I encourage you to view and recommend it.  I believe it is my best presentation in my 20+ years of speaking on the homosexual issue.

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/scott_lively/speech_011512.html

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My Analysis of the SMUG Lawsuit

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Pastor Scott

About 100 "gay" activists stage a march and protest against me after filing the SMUG lawsuit at Federal District Court in Springfield, MA, accusing me of "Crimes Against Humanity."

On March 23, 2012 I was served with a summons on a civil complaint for Crimes Against Humanity of Persecution, filed in Federal District Court in Springfield, MA on behalf of Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG) by the Center for Constitutional Rights, which receives some of its funding from George Soros.  The plaintiffs have used the Alien Tort Statute, arguing foreigners should be allowed to sue U.S. citizens in America for alleged violations of international law.

What is the alleged violation of international law? Incredibly, the complaint alleges “Crimes Against Humanity of Persecution,” claiming that my speech on homosexuality and pornography resulted in a conspiracy to persecute homosexuals. This is outrageous!

With full knowledge that these are bald-faced lies, SMUG asserts that 1) I masterminded the 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, which they call the “Kill the Gays Bill,” 2) inflamed passions against homosexuals in Uganda by characterizing all homosexuals as irredeemable genocidal child molesters, and 3) introduced to Uganda the heretofore unknown strategy of criminalizing public promotion of homosexuality as a means of opposing the rise of a homosexual movement in Uganda.  The proof that these are lies is found in the very same documents they misuse against me.

Their chief “evidence” for a conspiracy is that 1) I allegedly had communications with Ugandan activists and government officials and disseminated copies of my books and other writings in Uganda, 2) that these individuals introduced capital punishment for homosexuals in Uganda by producing and lobbying for the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, and 3) they launched a campaign of public vilification of homosexuals that supposedly would not have occurred had I not inspired and directed them to do so. The suit leaves out my unequivocal statements where I have repeatedly spoken against the capital punishment provision in the proposed legislation. But, neither SMUG nor the Center for Constitutional Rights are interested in the truth.

This alleged conspiracy is simply absurd, implying that my speech and writings about homosexuality overpowered the intelligence and independence of the entire government and population of Uganda, bending them to my supposedly nefarious will.  It is a breathtakingly insulting and racist premise.  It is factually bankrupt as well, as is proven (once again) by the very documents which the plaintiffs have relied upon for their complaint.

Their evidence that this “conspiracy” resulted in Crimes Against Humanity of Persecution is, in total,

1) the 2011 murder of SMUG leader David Kato (whose confessed killer was NOT an enraged “homophobe,” but Kato‘s live-in male prostitute/lover now serving 30 years in prison for the crime, an important fact they intentionally leave out),

2) the 2012 disruption of a two week conference (on its final day) by police who called the 30 or so of them “terrorists,” none of whom were arrested or detained,

3) the 2008 arrest and brief detention of three activists protesting an AIDS conference against whom no charges were filed,

4) the 2005 arrest of a transsexual who was stripped and fondled by police officers (but who subsequently won a tort suit against the police in a Ugandan court),

5)  an alleged nationwide government campaign to “crack down” on homosexual advocacy, resulting in the temporary suspension of one radio station manager by the Ugandan Broadcasting Council (for violation of “minimum broadcast standards” based on the reportedly foul language of a lesbian guest of a talk show),

6) the “outing” of numerous allegedly homosexual activists by various Ugandan individuals and newspapers (similar to what “gay“ and leftist media and activists do to their enemies here in the US), and

7) the self-claimed “flight” from Uganda of the SMUG Executive Director and spokesperson Robert Mugisha, now presumably comfortably remunerated by one or more Soros-funded NGOs.

This list of so-called “Crimes Against Humanity” is so weak that it smacks of mockery of the very real suffering that true victims of such crimes now face around the world.

SMUG is attempting to leverage a small catalogue of misrepresented and out-of-context comments by me, the independent actions of a few Ugandan leaders regarding their own national public policy, and a tiny handful of relatively minor incidents of “persecution,” into Crimes Against Humanity, the most serious category of crimes in the world.

Had SMUG filed this action in Uganda under Ugandan law, there would be no case. Had SMUG filed this action in the United States alleging violation of U.S. law, there would be no case. Realizing this problem, SMUG has tried to concoct an alleged violation of international law, which is absurd. SMUG would pervert our US Federal Courts into the modern equivalent of a Nuremburg Nazi War Trial.

Why would SMUG and the Center for Constitutional Rights go to such lengths in their attempt to punish one minor American pastor?  They want to silence me and anyone who speaks about the Bible or morality which does not agree with their agenda. Mindful of James 4:6, I pray for continued grace to counter these SMUG deceivers with humility and resolve.

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Motion to Dismiss SMUG Lawsuit

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Pastor Scott

Liberty Counsel, my attorneys in the SMUG lawsuit attempting to find me liable for “Crimes Against Humanity” for preaching against homosexuality in Uganda  have filed the following motion to dismiss the case.

Wow.  It still seems surreal to relate that the filing of this lawsuit is an accomplished fact and not merely the fantasy ravings of some “gay” blogger.  But it is a fact, and here is the link to their Complaint, one of sloppiest, most poorly reasoned briefs I have ever read, filled with embarassing typographical errors and egregious ommissions of fact designed to mislead the court.

http://www.ccrjustice.org/LGBTUganda/LGBTuganda_filing.pdf

In contrast, look at the masterful work of my team at Liberty Counsel!  What a great blessing it is to have them defending me.  If nothing else, read the introduction to the motion.

Memo – Support Motion to Dismiss as filed 062212

To understand these two documents in their right relationship, the SMUG Complaint is like a leaky rowboat sent out to attack.  The Liberty Counsel Motion to Dismiss is like a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier coming to the defense.

If there is genuine respect for law in this court, the SMUG lawsuit is now as good as dead.

 

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Hiking the Appalachian Trail

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Pastor Scott

I’ve just returned from a 10 day hike on a section of the Appalachian Trail.  Last year I did 21 days (210 miles) of a planned 40 days, from Harpers Ferry, WV to Albany PA.  I was forced to stop early with a stress fracture in my foot.  This year I picked up where I left off and hiked 105 miles to High Point State Park, NJ.  It was refreshing and rejuvenating.

 

 

 

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Pastor Scott

This is a video of my May 3rd performance of Jonathan Edward’s 1741 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”  I was one of numerous speakers at the National Day of Prayer gathering in Pittsfield, MA.  The original sermon is well over an hour in length, but I was forced to edit my version to 18 minutes to fit within my allotted time. 

http://www.scottlively.net/je/index.html

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The Death Penalty in Uganda

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Pastor Scott

I published the following essay on June 2, 2009 at DefendtheFamily.com in response to false suggestions in the media that I had advocated for the death penalty to be included in Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.  I will offer additional posts on this topic in future, but it is fitting to begin with this one since it was my first public comment on the matter.  It’s claims remain true to this day, notwitstanding the global propaganda campaign that implies without evidence that many homosexuals have been murdered/executed there.  

The Death Penalty in Uganda

by Scott Lively, J.D., Th.D.
President, Defend the Family International
June 2, 2009
By official count 22 young men were executed under Uganda’s law on homosexuality. The law in question required that all men and boys in Uganda be willing to submit to the homosexual seduction of it’s ruler, King Mwanga. When Ugandans began to convert to Christianity in the 1800s, a group of Catholics, led by Charles Lwanga, refused to allow themselves to be sodomized by the King. Enraged, King Mwanga had them torurously bound, marched 37 miles and then roasted alive in a fire pit. The date of their execution was June 3rd, 1886, and is today a national holiday commemorating Uganda’s rejection of homosexuality and commitment to Christian values.

It should be no surprise, therefore, that modern Ugandans are very unhappy that homosexual political activists from Europe and the United States are working aggressively to re-homosexualize their nation. Ugandan citizens report a growing number of foreign homosexual men coming to their country to turn desperately poor young men from the slums into their personal houseboys, and that some girls in public schools have being paid to recruit others into lesbianism. Foreign interests have exerted intense pressure on Uganda’s government to compromise its laws regarding sexual morality, often using their control over foreign aid funding for leverage.

Over the past decade a growing pro-family movement has begun to insist that Parliament do something about this problem. This year, Parliament answered the call. Unfortunately, the bill they are now debating represents a serious overcorrection, including, for example, the death penalty for certain forms of “aggravated homosexuality” (such as knowingly spreading AIDS).

As a Christian attorney and international human rights advocate who has worked closely with Uganda’s pro-family movement, I have a special interest in this issue. 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. Additionally, I urged them to actively promote the marriage model in their schools as a form of inoculation to the anti-family messages flooding their country through Western media.

All of my suggestions were ignored (despite which fact I am being blamed for the proposed law as written by certain major media outlets and the “gay” blogosphere.) Nevertheless, I commend the courage of the Ugandan people. During the past decade or so, Uganda has been one of the few countries of the world that has firmly resisted the enormous power and relentless pressure of the international “gay” lobby, while other developing nations such as South Africa and Brazil have been systematically homosexualized. This is one of the reasons that Uganda’s AIDS rate went from the highest to the lowest in Africa during this same time period.

Let me be absolutely clear. I do not support the proposed anti-homosexuality law as written. It does not emphasize rehabilitation over punishment and the punishment that it calls for is unacceptably harsh. However, if the offending sections were sufficiently modified, the proposed law would represent an encouraging step in the right direction. As one of the first laws of this century to recognize that the destructiveness of the “gay” agenda warrants opposition by government, it would deserve support from Christian believers and other advocates of marriage-based culture around the world.

In the mean time, despite all of the hysteria in the liberal media, it is important to remember that there is no death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda, only a bill under debate that will hopefully be modified before passage. The only Ugandans who have been executed for their beliefs and actions about homosexuality have been Christians.

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“Truth Be Damned”

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Pastor Scott

Wayne Besen of the anti-family blog Truth Be Damned (http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2012/04/24689/) has lost his legal battle against Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays.

PFOX Wins Lawsuit Against Anti-Ex-Gay Extremist
Wayne Besen Admits to Self-Aggrandizement

Washington, D.C. – A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by homosexual activist Wayne Besen against Greg Quinlan and Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX).  Besen claimed that Quinlan, a former homosexual, had defamed him when Quinlan said that Besen had been fired from the Human Rights Campaign and had uttered hateful rhetoric against Quinlan because he disagreed with Quinlan’s ex-gay sexual orientation.  (Besen once told Quinlan in a private conversation that someone should run him over with a bus or inject him with AIDS.)
Ironically, in his court filings, Besen admitted that while he may be known among some gay rights activists circles, “most individuals on the street in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area if asked if they had ever heard of [Besen] would respond with a resounding “No.”  Besen likened his public persona to “notoriety in small circles,” admitted to his “own promotional self-aggrandizement,” indicated that the books he has written were of “likely limited circulation,” and that he “might like to view [himself] as more well known than is actually the case.”
Besen filed his lawsuit against Quinlan even though state law grants Quinlan and other individuals immunity from civil lawsuit damages when they act without pay as an officer or director of a tax-exempt organization like PFOX.  No one at PFOX is paid a salary.
Attorney Matt Barber, a PFOX board member, said “Filing frivolous lawsuits and abusing our judicial system seems to be a new tactic of radical homosexual activist pressure groups like Besen’s. They are desperate to silence the message of hope that there is freedom from unwanted same-sex attractions.  It won’t work and, in the end, they only humiliate themselves and hurt what is already a lost cause.  The science continues to mount against the false notion that people are ‘born gay.'”
Besen has a history of bullying members of the ex-gay community.  Wayne Besen and his Truth Wins Out practice hatemongering, bigotry and intolerance against anyone who supports a person’s right of self-determination and affirms an individual’s right to change from gay to straight.  (See http://pfox.org/Wacky-Wayne-Besen.html).
If you have been a victim of Besen’s bullying or interference, regardless of whether you are ex-gay, everstraight, or gay, please send his emails, videos, voice mail, your personal account of what happened, or anything you would like to report to WackyWayne666@hotmail.com – because truth does win out!
Read PFOX’s earlier press release on the lawsuit at http://pfox.org/PFOX-Responds-Gay-Hate-Blogger-Demands.html
 ###Parents and Friends  of Ex-Gays & Gays is the nation’s leading advocacy organization for the ex-gay community, their families, and individuals with unwanted same-sex attractions.

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National Day of Prayer 2012

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Pastor Scott

After the radio show we (a van load of friends who took me to the station and listened to the show out in the van) all drove to Pittsfield where about a hundred brave souls gathered in the cold and light drizzle for the National Day of Prayer.  There were several great speakers and historical re-enactors.  I performed an 18 minute version of Jonathan Edward’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” in costume.  Hopefully a video of that will soon be available to add as a link in this post.

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Tag Team Match in Northampton

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Pastor Scott

Did a radio show yesterday with Bill Newman on WHMP in Northampton, MA.  Bill is an ACLU lawyer who went instantly on the attack as if I were on the witness stand in one of his cases.  But I’m also a lawyer and not easily bullied — even when Bill and his liberal co-host added two strongly pro-“gay” clergymen to the mix: the “Reverend and the Rabbi” (who apparently have a regular segment in the final quarter hour of the show).  I had fun, in any case.

But you can judge for yourself who came off better in the exchange.  Listen to the podcast at http://whmp.com/pages/8875192.php  The date of the show was 5 3 12

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“Gay Christians?”

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Pastor Scott

Thank you Clyde Warren for your thoughtful reply to my post Redeeming the Rainbow in which you analogized my opposition to homosexuality to the defense of slavery and subjugation of women by some Christians in the past.

However, I contend that your logic is upside-down.  It is the advocates of homosexuality, not the opponents of it, who are akin to those who once offered pro-slavery and anti-women’s sufferage arguments.  In each of these three cases, confused Christians have offered non-biblical arguments to legitimize socially and spiritually destructive policies.

Indeed, the arguments in favor of slavery and second-class status for women, while clearly NOT Christian (Gal 3:28), are nevertheless much stronger arguments than that for legitimizing homosexuality.  Forms of slavery and indentured servitude were part of the economic system of the Old Testament and early New Testament cultures.  Likewise, the Bible addresses some important distinctions between men and women and their roles.  In both cases these biblical references, taken out of context, provide at least some basis upon which to make an argument, however faulty.

In stark contrast to these, there is not a single pro-homosexual statement, story or context in all of Scripture.  “Gay Theology,” which I have studied at length, is total fabrication and a modern heresy.

The clear, unambiguous biblical position on homosexuality is complete and consistent condemnation in both the Old and New Testaments.  It’s condemnation pre-dates the Mosaic law, and was specifically reaffirmed after Christ’s fulfilment of the law by His Apostles.  In fact, homosexuality is singled out as the outer-extreme of sin: the only form of rebellion that drew down fire and brimstone from heaven (the example of wrath for all generations – Jude 1: 7), and the only sin chosen to exemplify the “reprobate mind,” the prerequisite of apostasy (Romans 1).

Are there “gay Christians?”  I believe there are, just as there were Christian slave-holders and Christian misogynists (and Christians today who lie, cheat and steal).  But I believe these are the people described in 1 Cor 3:11-15 who make it into heaven “as if through the fire,” without reward or commendation because they used their Christian liberty to practice and promote sin, to the extreme detriment of the cause of Christ. 

There is a vast difference between “being saved” and being sanctified.  The former comes by faith in Christ alone.  The latter comes by working, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to become like Christ: suppressing the flesh, not indulging it; conforming to the teachings of the Bible, not editing and interpreting it to suit yourself; hungering and thirsting after righteousness, not suppressing the truth in rebelliousness;  “hating even the garment polluted by the flesh,” in humility, not marching through the streets boasting of pride in the practice of sodomy.

Christians are instructed to have no fellowship with such people, believers though they may be in the most nominal sense, but who remain unrepentant about their sin.  With Paul we are to shun every such person from our churches “so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord” (1 Cor 5:4-5).  The Bible commands church leaders to exercise “tough love” toward these wayward members for their own good and so that weaker believers and babes in Christ will not be corrupted by their  bad example.

On the other hand, those who confess that their sin is sin and work to overcome it (however imperfectly) deserve our every kindness and help (1 Peter 4). 

This is the biblical view, my friend, leading unto life and health.  What you are offering is Christian-flavored secular humanism and it leads unto death.

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Redeeming the Rainbow

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Pastor Scott

Today I gave a three hour seminar in Oklahoma City based on my 2009 textbook Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the “Gay” Agenda.  This is the book I wrote to equip Christians to understand and effectively respond to the homosexual agenda.  It may be downloaded in PDF form without charge at http://www.defendthefamily.com/rtr/.  The file is small enough to send as an e-mail attachment and I encourage people to send it to all of their pro-family friends.

This is the book I was finalizing during my 2009 Uganda conference (and the basis of my lectures there) which subsequently brought the wrath of the radical left upon me and has led to the outrageous SMUG lawsuit filed against me (for “Crimes Against Humanity” no less) last month in federal court in Springfield, MA where I now live.  I will address that lawsuit in a separate post at a later date.

My seminar today was attended by none other than Wayne Besen of Truth Will Out, a prominent “gay” blogger.  He was civil and polite for the most part, but visibly quite agitated and finally left the seminar after being criticized by another man for interrupting me.  There were two women in the audience as well whom I suspect, based upon their questions, were lesbians. 

I do not vary my presentations based on the presence of opponents.  I seek always to teach forthrightly what I know and believe to whomever wants to listen.  

Redeeming the Rainbow is the only book of its kind, filled with straightforward explanations of the the history, methods, strategies and goals of the homosexual movement, and practical, user-friendly guidelines on how to respond to it.  If every Christian in America were to read this book it would, I believe, dramatically change the national debate in our favor.   

 

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Occupy Tea Party

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Pastor Scott

On April 15th I spoke at a Tea Party Coalition rally in the Boston Common. 

About 80-100 “gay” and Occupy activists showed up to protest me, including a contingent of black-garbed anarchists (at lease one of whom was hand-cuffed and led away by the police after crashing through the Tea Party audience with a large banner reading “Class War.”)

Brian Camenker has written a preliminary report on his blog with the promise of a more thorough piece soon.  http://www.massresistance.org/

I hold the honor of being the first person attacked by the Occupy movement for a “social” rather than fiscal issue when Occupy Springfield staged a protest at my inner-city mission church, Holy Grounds Coffee House in Springfield, MA in November of 2011. 

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11d/lively_attack/index.html

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11d/lively_attack/ad_101311/index.html

 

 

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Holocaust Revisionist? Look who’s talking.

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Pastor Scott

I am in Oklahoma City this weekend to give a series of talks at Draper Park Christian Church starting this evening.  It seems that my every appearance now is considered a crisis by the “gay” community.  A-List trouble-maker Wayne Besen flew in from Vermont to participate in a press conference designed to portray me as a Holocaust Revisionist.    http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2012/04/24605/

The Oklahoman published this story:
http://newsok.com/pink-swastika-authors-oklahoma-city-visit-stirs-coalitions-ire/article/3670146

I drafted the following response:

The Pink Swastika Fact Sheet

The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, Veritas Aeterna Press. First Edition 1995. Current Fourth Edition 2002. 387 pages.

Thesis: The National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) has its roots in the German homosexual movement and was controlled throughout its history by an inner-circle of men, including Adolf Hitler, who shared a common homosexual orientation.

Purpose: The Pink Swastika was written to counter an effort by the American homosexual political movement begun in the 1970s, symbolized by the use of the pink triangle, to fabricate a “Gay Holocaust” equivalent to the Holocaust of the Jews by exaggerating the Nazi persecution of homosexuals and suppressing documentation of the role of homosexuals in the rise and rule of the Nazi Party.

Sources: Over 200 sources are cited in The Pink Swastika, primarily mainstream historians who wrote during or shortly after the Nazi era, such as William Shirer (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) and Hitler contemporaries Conrad Heiden and Otto Strasser. Over 25% of the sources are homosexual publications, such as Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany by Harry Oosterhuis and Hubert Kennedy.

1. The Pink Swastika is not Holocaust revisionism. Scott Lively is a Pro-Israel Christian. Kevin Abrams is an Orthodox Jew. The book affirms the Holocaust of the Jews as factual and undeniable. Accusations to the contrary are false and baseless.

2. The Pink Swastika fully and factually addresses the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime, citing leading “gay” scholars to affirm that from 5,000-15,000 homosexuals died in Nazi work camps.

3. The Pink Swastika does not assert that homosexuals caused the Holocaust.

4. The Pink Swastika corrects historical revisionism by the homosexual political movement which greatly exaggerated claims of homosexual victimhood to falsely equate “gays” with Jews under the Nazis. In nearly every instance the book counters these false claims by citing responsible homosexual sources. After its publication the “gay” activist community was forced to drop that effort and traded the pink triangle for the rainbow flag as the primary symbol of the movement.

5. The Pink Swastika compiles, for the first time since Samuel Igra’s 1945 book Gernany’s National Vice, the extensive documentation of homosexuality in the Nazi movement, but with the benefit of hundreds of additional sources that were not available to Igra.

6. The apparent contradiction of homosexual Nazis persecuting other homosexuals by imprisoning them in work camps is fully explored and explained by examining the division in Germany’s “gay” subculture between a masculine-oriented “butch” faction which found a home in the Nazi Party, and a feminine-oriented “femme” faction which primarily aligned with the rival Communist Party.

7. The Pink Swastika has not been “discredited” except by homosexualist reviewers, most of whom have failed to disclose their ideological conflict of interest. The few non-homosexual critics of the book have no expertise in the history of the “gay” movement and are thus not qualified to render judgment.

8. Author Scott Lively sdllaw@gmail.com has for 17 years issued a standing challenge to debate any challenger in any neutral public forum. Not a single challenger has dared to accept.

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Getting Started

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Scott Lively

This is my first entry to my new blog.  I am very unfamiliar with wordpress.  It will take some experimentation to figure it all out.  Please bear with me.

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