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New book links U.S. conservatives and African ‘Kill the Gays’ laws
One of the original researchers to expose the ties between U.S. right-wing evangelicals and anti-LGBTQ laws in Uganda and other parts of Africa has released releasing a new book that shows U.S. activists exactly how to stop Americans like Scott Lively and Rick Warren from pushing their hateful beliefs abroad.
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Lively: Gays are ‘using parts of the body in ways they’re not supposed to be used’
Anti-gay crusader and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively was a guest on the “The Alan Colmes Show” Tuesday, where he attempted to explain why “homosexuality is a behavioral disorder on par with alcoholism or eating disorders.”
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Lively: Revolution coming because people are ‘fed up’ with ‘homosexual agenda’
Scott Lively was a guest on Bryan Fischer’s radio program on Monday to discuss his campaign for governor in Massachusetts but, of course, most of the interview revolved around Fischer’s and Lively’s mutual battle against the “homosexual agenda.”
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The PR campaign to whitewash the right’s anti-gay Uganda history
As a communications person myself, I can really appreciate a good PR campaign, and the best I’ve seen in a long time is the new effort by U.S. right-wing evangelicals to completely whitewash their own history of involvement with Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality law. For the last five years, human rights advocates around the world been discussing how U.S. conservative figures were integrally involved in the creation of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (originally called the “Kill the Gays Bill”).
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U.S. conservatives form global coalition to encourage anti-gay laws abroad
WASHINGTON — Two longtime opponents of the U.S. gay-rights movement on Friday announced formation of a coalition that will seek to persuade more countries around the world to follow Russia’s example in passing laws that restrict gay rights.
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Uganda passes tough new law against homosexuality
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan lawmakers on Friday passed an anti-gay law that punishes “aggravated homosexuality” with life imprisonment.
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Anti-gay activist Scott Lively: Gay people are behind anti-gay violence in Russia
While Russia is experiencing an increase in violence directed at gay people and enacting new laws criminalizing pro-gay speech, US Religious Right activists Scott Lively and Linda Harvey are simply denying the prevalence of anti-gay violence. In fact, Lively is blaming other gay people for the uptick in hates crimes.
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Meet Janet Mefferd, the go-to radio host for anti-LGBT hate mongers
Janet Mefferd has become one of talk radio’s most relentless purveyors of homophobia, using her eponymous program to provide a platform to fringe anti-LGBT activists and to spout her own bigoted, occasionally conspiracy-minded views.
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Anti-gay crusader Scott Lively returns to Russia to discuss ‘traditional’ values
MOSCOW — Anti-gay activist Scott Lively returned to Russia this week at the invitation of the Rockford, Ill.-based World Congress of Families (WCF), a Christian group that has opposed same-sex marriage and adoption of children by same-sex couples or LGBT parents in the United States and globally.
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How the American Right came to embrace Russia’s anti-gay crackdown
American conservative groups haven’t just praised Russia’s crackdown on gays. Working through several channels, American anti-gay activists quietly provided intellectual backing and international support that directly and indirectly fueled the resurgent anti-gay movement in Russia and in other former Soviet states like Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine.