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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Ugandan gay rights group on Wednesday filed suit in federal court in Massachusetts against notorious American evangelist, Scott Lively, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.
Scott Lively
Lively is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization that is classified as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The lawsuit alleges that beginning in 2002, Lively conspired with religious and political leaders in Uganda to whip up anti-gay hysteria with warnings that homosexuals would sodomize African children and corrupt their culture, reported The New York Times.
The result — The Anti-homosexuality Bill, otherwise known as the “Kill the Gays Bill,” led to increased persecution of the LGBTI Ugandan community.
The Ugandan legislature has considered the Anti-homosexuality Bill over several years since its introduction and re-introduction by one of Lively’s Ugandan contacts, Member of Parliament David Bahati.
The bill seeks to impose the death sentence for so called “aggravated homosexual behavior,” and imprison those guilty of the so called “promotion of homosexuality.”
Lively is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) under the alien tort statute, which allows foreigners to sue in American courts in situations alleging the violation of international law.
The suit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of SMUG, alleges that Lively has waged a “decade-long campaign … in coordination with his Ugandan counterparts, to persecute persons on the basis of their gender and/or sexual orientation and gender identity.”
CCR announced its action this morning in a conference call with reporters:
CCR is bringing the suit under the Alien Tort Statute, which provides federal jurisdiction for “any civil action by an alien, for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.”
In other words, it allows a foreign national to sue in U.S. courts for violations of U.S. or international law conducted by U.S. citizens overseas. According to CCR, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that ATS is a remedy for serious violations of international law norms that are “widely accepted and clearly defined.”
The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass., where Lively currently resides.
Lively has called for the criminalization of “the public advocacy of homosexuality” as far back as 2007.
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YEAH!
Yes.Get that bastard!
Justice for the Ugandan people!!!!!
I didn’t know they could, but that fucker needs to be prosecuted. I’m all for it, considering this hate has merely *escalated* the torture and killing of innocent lgbt folk in Uganda…
Justice for all people’s of the earth.Regardless of gender, all the God of Heaven can see is his beloved children.
I can only hope that this guy gets hit with the book. No man has the right to attack and undermine the humanity and freedom of other people, no matter how he disagrees with them.
grrrr
There is something in international law could Alien Tort which allows for this filing. I have almost no details but hose should be forthcoming as this unfolds.
I hate when people hide behind their religion to support hate. No religion promotes hate only close minded people do.
Awesome!
Finally!
about time
about time yes! Those hedious idiots
Take him for everything he is NOT worthy of.
leave him enough money for an education!!
About time!!! These religious individuals go to third wolrl countries to envagelizar their citizens.As if we were in times of the Conquest and invasion.They destroy entires comunities by doing so, and their growth stops. They should be prohibited to allow other religions to do such act in other countries.
If Lively loses, does he get extradited to Uganda? Just curious.
These mean as a snake hater “preachers” have no connection to God in anyway in my book. Evil thugs.
put him and any like him on a boat haul it to the middle of the atlantic and sink it
we can bash the Ugandin’s for the kill the gay bill, but it was started by American’s. I hope they bankrupt them
Charges against Scott Lively for inciting persecution are not enough. By leading a HATE GROUP TO SPREAD LIES and get LGBTs in another country killed, I’d say Lively deserves charges for flat-out conspiracy to commit genocide!
Good for them. Evil!