I listened,
dear Reader, because I wanted to know—how virulent is this man, who decided to
run down to Uganda and tell
politicians and cops and preachers the “truth” about the homosexual agenda? As
you may remember, things got a little outta hand, and the Ugandans came up with
a bill
so draconian that the world had to face them down. There was that provision of
death for “aggravated homosexuality.” In fact, even Lively himself was upset.
As stated in the Wikipedia article on him, he wrote:
[M]y
advice to the parliament was to go the other direction from what they did to
actually go on a proactive positive message promoting the family, promoting
marriage, etcetera, through the schools, and that if they were going to
continue to criminalize homosexuality that they should focus on rehabilitation
and not punishment. And I was very disappointed when the law came out as it is
written now with such incredibly harsh punishments.
So how
virulent was he? My initial reaction was, “not so bad,” but that may in fact
make him more dangerous. He presents himself as a scholar—no one, he says,
knows more about this topic than he. He poses as unbiased; some homosexuals, he
asserts, don’t molest children, but many do. He distorts history; the very
basis of homosexuality has traditionally been between an adult male and a youth
or teenage boy.
He has a
flip chart, on which he displays the varying types of homosexuals; in the case
of women, there are the butches and the fems, occupying the middle of the line
graph. In the case of men, there is the super effeminate male on the right. And
on the left, one step past “super-macho?”
Monster.
Yes, these
are they hyper masculine, no mercy homosexuals that were the secret power
within the Third Reich. These were the homosexuals that killed the Jews, that
released the gas.
History is
a smorgasbord for Lively—he munches on the Ancient Greek tradition of man / boy
relationships, he chomps down on the morsel that there were homosexuals in the
early days of Nazism, but that they were rigorously suppressed later. Oh, and
that half a million gay people died in the gas chambers.
No, he
says, most gay people are miserably unhappy—we are drowning ourselves in
alcohol and drugs. And we therefore have to drag everybody down to our level—to
our pit of despair and degradation. And how do we do that? By recruiting
youths, which is called pederasty.
Nor did
Lively concern himself just with Uganda. He also went on a fifty city-tour
through Russia, and guess what? Provinces and districts throughout the country
began passing draconian laws, essentially similar to Uganda’s law. Here’s
what Masha Gessen wrote:
The
first time I heard about legislation banning "homosexual
propaganda", I thought it was funny. Quaint. I thought the last
time anyone had used those words in earnest I had been a kid and my girlfriend
hadn't been born yet. Whatever they meant when they enacted laws against
"homosexual propaganda" in the small towns of Ryazan or Kostroma, it
could not have anything to do with reality, me or the present day. This was a
bit less than two years ago.
Hate is a
virulent message, true, but does anybody think that one man alone—little Scott
Lively—is capable of jumping on a plane, spending a week or two, and getting
such spectacular results?
Of course
not—here’s
what I wrote, citing Wikipedia, on January 22 of this year:
The
Fellowship, through Representative Joe Pitts (R.-Pa.),
redirected millions in US aid to Uganda from sex education programs to
abstinence programs, thereby causing an evangelical revival, which included
condom burnings.
In
a November 2009 NPR
interview, Sharlet alleged that Ugandan Fellowship associates David Bahati and Nsaba
Buturo were behind the recent proposed
bill in Uganda
that called for the death penalty
for gays.[75] Bahati cited a
conversation with Fellowship members in 2008 as having inspired the
legislation.[76]
And who is Sharlet? The
author of The Family, which details the shadowy combination of religious
fundamentalism, politics, and corporations. Yes, through Doug Coe and his “family,”
American tax dollars have made life hell for Ugandan and Russian LGBT folk.
And here’s
where—only very slightly—I begin to feel sorry for Lively. He’s been used, and
he may have to pay, as he should. Sexual Minorities
Uganda (SMUG) paired with the Center for
Constitutional Rights (CCR) to haul Lively into court for hate crimes. And
on Wednesday, 14 August 13, federal judge Michael
Ponsor ruled that yes, the case can proceed.
Good for the
judge!
So yes, it’s
certainly true that someone out there has an agenda, but is it the homosexuals?
You decide.
