OKC Note and New Essay “Classic Liberals Discover Homo-Fascism”
Just got back from Oklahoma City where I was the main speaker for opening night of the Reclaiming America for Christ conference. http://reclaimamericaforchrist.org/
I also performed my 20 minute edited version of Jonathan Edward’s 1741 sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God on Friday evening, the final night. I gave a talk at the High Noon Club, a conservative politically-oriented lunch group that meets at a gun club, and on Sunday morning preached at Olivet Baptist Church in the inner-city. Spent some time with pro-family hero Sally Kern, a state rep there, talking strategy and tactics. It was a good trip.
While in OKC the Chick fil A controversy broke out and I penned this essay which was published on World Net Daily. I submitted it also to Salon magazine, but of course they did not print it.
Classic Liberals Discover Homo-Fascism
The brouhaha over Chick Fil A CEO Dan Cathy’s defense of authentic marriage has caused a fender-bender on the political left. Classic free speech liberalism has apparently met for the first time the new generation of homo-fascists. Heady with empowerment by President Obama and a long string of political and legal victories, the “gay” activist movement and its homosexualist allies are flexing their muscles like never before. Two such allies, Mayors Tom Merino of Boston and Rahm Emanuel of Chicago announced plans to use the powers of their respective offices to prevent Chick Fil A from expanding its business in these two cities. Their blatant disregard for the First Amendment was so egregious that it apparently shocked a number of classic liberals into action.
Salon Magazine’s Glenn Greenwald chided his fellow-travelers on the left in a column titled “Rahm Emanuel‘s Dangerous Free Speech Attack,” remarking “You can’t cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share.” He listed a number of other liberal journalists and groups like the ACLU who had also gone public with their criticism.
Welcome to the brave new world of homo-fascism, Mr. Greenwald, but watch your back. You’re now officially a “homophobe” because you have dared to oppose something that is favorable to the “gay” cause. Sure, you tried to cover your backside by tossing in a couple of cheap shots at the “chicken CEO” but that won’t save you from the Brownshirts. They don’t really care about free speech. They care about power. Indeed, if you had been paying attention over the past few years, you would have noticed that their official position is that “anti-gay bigots” don‘t deserve free speech at all.
Perhaps you are unaware of the “Commentator Accountability Project” of the powerful Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD). It was launched earlier this year to hold media outlets (not commentators) accountable for allowing traditional marriage advocates (including this writer) to have a voice in the public debate.
One of its key concepts for twisting the arms of journalists is the slogan “bias is not balance.” How’s that for simply redefining pro-family opinion out of existence in the newsroom? See http://www.glaad.org/cap. I personally recall a leader of the Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association years ago state that allowing pro-family people to comment in news stories related to homosexuality was equivalent to letting the Ku Klux Klan have equal time in stories about race.
But surely, Mr. Greenwald, you are not unaware of the many incidents of “gay” bullying of Christians in recent years, from the celebrity-level character assassination of beauty queen Carrie Prejean (for saying nothing more than that marriage should be between a man and a woman), to the recent bashing of Brad Pitt’s Mom for giving her opinion that homosexuality is wrong in a letter to her local newspaper. Reportedly, death threats have since intimidated her into silence. Last year just outside of Rahm’s Chicago in Arlington Heights, a church school which hosted me for a talk on the biblical view of homosexuality was vandalized when a chunk of pavement was thrown through a window. On it was written the message “Shut Down Lively” and a note was attached threatening future violence. Come to mention it, though, you wouldn’t have known about this hate crime because it got almost no press coverage, even locally. I wonder why?
True, these examples are not precisely equivalent to the case of public officials abusing their offices to punish pro-family speech, but they do share in common an implicit belief that all disapproval of homosexuality must be suppressed. And that the urgency of this goal trumps all other considerations.
Unfortunately for all of us, there will be many more examples of homo-fascism in our future, because the “gay” movement is finally within reach at a national level of the power that it needs to punish its most vocal detractors and intimidate everyone else into silence. This will include “classic liberals” like yourself, Mr. Greenwald, a fact which you will discover the hard way if you dare to continue as a defender of “repellant” pro-family speech. I pray you have the backbone to match your principles. And while you’re at it, being also a civil rights lawyer, perhaps you might weigh in on the ethics of lesbian judicial activist Sophia Hall sitting as presiding judge in the Illinois “gay marriage” case. Rahm Emanuel’s power to unconstitutionally impose his “morality” on the people of that state pales in comparison to hers.
Don’t get me wrong, I genuinely appreciate that some of you classic liberals have jumped to the defense of Dan Cathy’s free speech rights. Forgive me for my skepticism of your motives, however, in light of all the other examples of “gay” bullying that have largely gone unchallenged by you all. One can’t help but wonder if the “danger” you sense is not actually to the First Amendment, but to the “gay” agenda itself, by the prospect of a too-early awakening of the sleeping giant of American public opinion. The frog must not be prompted to jump out of the pot by a too-sudden rise in heat.
So, along with the rest of the pro-family movement I will wait to see whether you and your colleagues continue to stand up to the “gay” bullies, in which case we will know you’re for real, or whether you step aside and let them goosestep on toward their glorious vision of a society purged of Judeo-Christian sexual morality.
The Pink Swastika 5th Edition
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.
Second Attack by SMUG and CCR
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.
Springfield MO Update
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
Report from Springfield MO
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).
CHRISTIAN RED ALERT
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
The Global Threat of Homosexuality
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
My Analysis of the SMUG Lawsuit
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.
Motion to Dismiss SMUG Lawsuit
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.
Hiking the Appalachian Trail
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.
