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By Ross Murray
Anti-gay extremist Scott Lively, has been invited to visit the Draper Park Christian Church in Oklahoma City for three days of “teaching and preaching,” from April 27-29, 2012.
His visit happens to follow both the Holocaust Day of Remembrance and the Day of Silence, which is timely, since much of Lively’s career has been built around attempting to mis-educate and confuse people about the lives of LGBT people and making frankly absurd claims about gay people within the Nazi Party.
Scott Lively
One has to wonder what sort of “teaching and preaching” will happen within these three days.
Will the truth (or any truth) come from his presentations? Will there be any thoughtful dialog? Will there be any teaching from Isaiah 58: “loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke to set the oppressed free?” We can safely assume not.
Lively is not your run-of-the mill anti-LGBT activist. He is even more dangerous. His attacks on LGBT people are well documented in GLAAD’s Commentator Accountability Project. He is the former state director for the California branch of American Family Association, which Southern Poverty Law Center named a hate group.
Most notably, Lively is also the author of “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party,” which purports that the “Nazi Party was entirely controlled by militaristic male homosexuals throughout its short history.”
Yes, as the country remembers the Holocaust and the millions of people who lost their lives and their livelihood, including LGBT people, Scott Lively will be telling anyone who will listen that gay man created such an atrocity.
Lively’s attacks on LGBT people are not limited to bizarrely revising history. He has called for the criminalization of “the public advocacy of homosexuality,” both in the United States and especially abroad. He is directly linked to proposed anti-gay legislation in Uganda, which aims to make simply being gay punishable by death.
In 2009, he held an anti-gay conference in Kampala, which he called a “nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.” Because of his intense influence and the hatred he inflamed in Uganda, Lively has been blamed for the death of equality advocate David Kato.
Lively is now advocating for anti-gay activism in Moldavia.
As hard as it is for some of us to take him seriously, Scott Lively’s words and actions bring real harm to real people. His message to the unwitting parishioners at Draper Park Christian Church will portray him as the victim.
In reality, has been on a hunt to demonize LGBT people to the point that members of the LGBT community have been brutally killed following his talks. This is no Christian message. It incites unspeakable acts, and brings harm to others.
Thankfully, there are Christians out there who do not want to be associated with Lively’s lies and revisionism.
In response to Lively’s visit to Draper Park Christian Church, the Cimarron Alliance Foundation in Oklahoma City is arranging a press conference featuring several LGBT-affirming groups, including Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, The Center for Oklahoma Human Rights Alliance and the ACLU.
These faith leaders will demand that Lively speak the truth, rather than “Holocaust revisionism.” Several Oklahoma City churches will open their doors for a special time of reflective prayer for LGBT people and their supporters.
Sadly, these Christians are underrepresented in the mainstream media, while harmful messages like Scott Lively’s are routinely featured.
GLAAD recently released ‘Missing Voices’, a report that highlights the mainstream media’s overreliance on anti-LGBT religious voices, while ignoring people of faith who love, support, and affirm LGBT people. Instead of focusing attention on the dangerous messages coming from people like Scott Lively, the media would be better to share the stories of the people of faith who are gathering to voice their love and support for LGBT people.
These Christians who are gathering in Oklahoma City are trying to stem the harm brought forth by Scott Lively. They recognize the harm that he has inflicted on those who endured the Holocaust, the families of those whose lives were lost to it, LGBT people and supporters who are fighting for their lives in Uganda and Moldavia, and those who want to live and worship in peace in Oklahoma.
Their witness is powerful and their ministry is needed, especially in trying times such as these.
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Doesn’t this already exist? I swear it did…
http://www.dayofdialogue.com/faqs/
Yep. Thought so.
the more the crazy peep shyt out their mouth the better for us…let them be crazy as they wanna be…it brings out the normal in regular folk.
HA FUCK THAT GUY
When you pray to the god of this world, he gives you riches and power and control of people’s minds.
once again, my home state embarrasses itself
Yuck. DNW
Why not LA. NYC. Chicago, San Francisco, Miami … just hiding out with a fringe ‘church’ in a right wing State “preaching” hate. So brave.
Interesting.
coincidince? I think NOT!!! ~Said like the teacher from the Incredibles~
Gross.
His hate will die with him.
What a douche… :/
Probably a closet case!
Stupid..
Let’s hope he meets a painful, terrifying death.
Homophobes are known to hide their homo feelings. Hate is just cover-up. Too bad he’s not pulling a Westboro-style protest in big cities. He’s scared!
Closet case.
Too bad I scheduled my abortion for that weekend.
He had better be scared – scared of going to hell for judging other people when he doesn’t know what he is talking about.
animals and barbarians
he is just butt hurt cause his boyfriend santorum lost
Glad I won’t be there! All that gospel preaching on street corners tends to get on my nerves. I would like to be able to walk to the store without being forced to put up with people bumrushing me and blocking my way (not lying, they have done that)
People just got to stop going in our bedrooms mind there own damn business learn to shut the hell up when they don’t know all use has heart and we want to be treated with respect like they do do we get into there business no so stay out of ours straight ass holes who against equal rights for all
its the new hitler
He’s a sad, sad man, and when he dies God will appear and say “You know nothing of my work, catch the next down elevator”.
It is FUCKING OKLAHOMA!
Thomas please refrain from judging the judgemental homophobe it makes you a hypocrite
Just another sad case
There is nothing wrong with homosexuality. Not everyone shares the same beliefs. Tomorrow, on the Day of Silence, I will be talking but only because I have to work. I work at a snow cone stand. While I know that most children do not know or understand the significance of the rainbow, I smile every single time a boy orders pink bubble gum and girls and boys order rainbows. Maybe, one day this hate will stop.
The media do rely on extremes of opinion to create polarised stories. That means liberal Christians need to get a lot more vocal. That may mean heavily criticizing people like this from within their own ranks. Have they got the balls to do it? Whose side will they take?
Some ppl need a group of ppl to hate…
At least he’s not here.
I can only hope that this shitstain is reincarnated as, well, a shitstain. Horrible man. And i hesitate to call him that. He is just evil.
should have read OKLAHOMA welcomes racists homophobe closet case bigot….OK is slidding backward every day
N evil people never last long
Ugh…he’s disgusting
What I want to know is why they care so much what we do in our bedrooms? It’s all a little creepy to me
He should take a course in nutrition and a healthy diet. xoxo
Sickening.
To distort the historical record of the Holocaust in any manner is Holocaust denial. To twist the documentation so as to make all of WWII gay people’s fault, as Lively does, is no different in kind from Hitler’s propaganda that pinned all fault for everything on Jews. Moreover, the gay victims of the Holocaust (who are given their due memorialization in Berlin and elsewhere) *should* serve as a reminder of the importance of ending anti-gay discrimination. Concentration camp prisoners who were Jewish and gay had to wear both yellow and pink armbands and were especially ill treated.
Jesus did not speak of bashing gay people, Jesus had more important things to do like feeding the hungry and healing the sick.
Why don’t he plan a day of taking his meds?
President Snow?
Hopefully this mans god will call him home soon, he’s spread enough Hate and Intolerance for 2 or more lifetimes. Anyone who takes this creep seriously is as sorry as he is.
The man is lower than the helpless animals he slaughters back in South Africa and his opinions really dont count for anything!. He’s full of more wind than an elephants fart and he smells even worse I’m sure!.
The modern day KKK – This is how these people need to be portrayed. To gather and preach hate is alot like the kkk in the past…
come to the neck of my woods BOY and we’ll show you some christian love!