As yet another example of how the once respectable Republican Party has become the roosting place on radical religious extremists and the mentally unbalanced, the The Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly, a local chapter of the conservative GOP activist group California Republican Assembly will be hosting Scott Lively as a featured speaker on April 4th. We last saw Lively at an anti-gay convention where he was advocating the imprisonment of gays where he argued they should be subjected to forced "therapy" to "cure" them. As readers may recall, Lively is also the author of the thoroughly debunked "The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party." One can only wonder when the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly will be inviting the Imperial Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to speak or perhaps the leader of some Neo-Nazi group if Mr. Lively represents the caliber of speaker now being sought by the organization. But then, the GOP had Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin as its VP candidate, so being in touch with reality is no longer a GOP requirement for speakers or candidates. Here are some highlights from the Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks hate groups:*
A chapter of a group once described by Ronald Reagan as the “conscience of the Republican Party” has announced plans to host a speech by the author of a book that falsely claims that homosexuals largely orchestrated the Holocaust. The Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly, a local chapter of the conservative GOP activist group California Republican Assembly, says it will hear on April 3 from Scott Lively — a man it boastfully describes as “The Pastor Vilified by the Newspapers as a Hater Because of his stand Against the Promotion of Homosexuality.”
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Lively, who runs Abiding Truth Ministries . . . has been thoroughly discredited by real historians. (Lively’s speech to the Murrieta-Temecula group is entitled “The Pink Swastika.”) Lively is also co-founder of the anti-gay hate group Watchmen on the Walls. . . . (The SPLC lists Abiding Truth Ministries as a hate group because of its promotion of clearly false allegations about homosexuals.)
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March has been a busy month for Lively. Just a few weeks ago, he flew to the Ugandan capital of Kampala for an anti-gay conference, where he argued that gays and lesbians should be forced into conversion therapy.
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The Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly can be reached as follows: 951-304-2757; contactus@MT-RA.com
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