Scott Lively’s Coffee Shop Manager A Convicted Child Molester

My, my - seeing hypocrisy and idiocy exposed can be so much fun. I recently wrote about Scott Lively's activities in Massachusetts where he is peddling his warped version of Christianity to the gullible through among other things a coffee shop. It turns out that Mr. Lively obviously did not do a background check on the manager he hired for the shop (pictured to the right in the photo) who turns out to be a sex offender who violated an 11 year old girl. Rather that denigrating gays across the globe, Mr. Lively would do well to clean his own cesspool like house. The hypocrisy of it all is just too sweet to pass up and it further demonstrates the hazard Lively poses to society given his blind obsession against law abiding LGBT citizens while it turns out he's harboring a sex offender on his own payroll. Ohm, and note that Lively's already back on the anti-gay speaking circuit. I wonder if the Boston Globe regrets its recent puff piece on Lively now. Box Turtle Bulletin has coverage and here are some highlights:
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Anti-gay extremist Scott Lively, who travels the world to preach that the international gay cabal is recruiting young children into homosexuality through child molestation, hired a convicted child molester as manager of his Springfield, MA coffee house. The manager, Michael J. Frediani, 38, who lived in an apartment above the coffee house was arrested this morning by Springfield police for failing to register as a Level 2 sex offender.
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In New York, Frediani was convicted of sexual abuse in the first degree and aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree in 1996. The charge relates to an arrest by police in Canandaigua, N.Y., in 1995 in which the victim was an 11-year-old girl. The description of the offense was “deviate sexual intercourse.”
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New York determined that Frediani was a level 3 sex offender under that state’s classification which indicates that Frediani is considered most likely to reoffend again. Lively says he didn’t know about Frediani’s past, and didn’t appear too concerned about it:
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Frediani had told Lively that he had a “rough past before he became a Christian,” Lively said, adding that he did not know any specifics and that he saw no need for a criminal background check. . . . He [Lively] warns everyone that they should keep gay people away from their children, but just anybody can hang out with the local teens at Lively’s coffee shop. Yeah. Good thinking.
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Oh, and that bit about Lively turning over a new leaf and no longer being interested in anti-gay activism? I was skeptical. ”‘Let’s see where we are, say, a year from now,” I wrote. Well… Lively said he continues to serve as a conference speaker around the world on the topic of homosexuality, but “it has nothing to do with the ministry in Springfield.” That wasn’t even a full week.