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US Evangelist Scott Lively
Sexual Minorities Uganda, a gay rights group, on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against US evangelist, Scott Lively for inciting the persecution of LGBT people in their country.
According to the New York Times, the lawsuit maintains that beginning in 2002, Lively conspired with religious and political leaders in Uganda to whip up anti-gay hysteria with warnings that gay people would sodomize African children and corrupt their culture.
The Associated Press reported that Frank Mugisha, who heads SMUG, said it was singling out Lively for “helping spread propaganda and violence” against Uganda’s gay people.
Mugisha said, “We hope that he will be held accountable for what he did in Uganda,” said Mugisha, who won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award last year. “We want to send out a clear message to him and to others.”
The Inter Press Service news agency reported that the lawsuit was filed by the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in the home state of Scott Lively, the defendant, who heads the Abiding Truth Ministries, a fundamentalist Christian group.
Lively is also the author of “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party”, a 1995 book that claimed Nazism was created and propagated by homosexuals, and a second book, “Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child”, a how-to guide for parents to “prevent” their children from becoming homosexual.
He has travelled to Uganda, Latvia and Moldova to warn Christian clergy members to defend their countries against what he says is an onslaught by gay rights advocates based in the West.
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