Judge Rules That Scott Lively Must Stand Trial for Crimes Against Humanity In Uganda

Scott Lively in Uganda

In a most welcomed development - and one that I'd like to see result in charges against other American Christofascists - a federal court has ruled that anti-gay extremist (and in my view total nutcase) Scott Lively must stand trial for crimes against humanity in connection with his efforts to fan anti-gay hatred and violence against gays in Uganda. Like so many of the "godly Christian" crowd, with Lively no anti-gay lie is too big or too disgusting and the tactics used to dehumanize gays are all too frighteningly similar to those used against the Jews by the Nazis.  Note Lively's ties to Russia's anti-gay laws.  Back2 Stonewall has details.  Here are highlights:

A Ugandan LGBT advocacy organization which had filed a lawsuit against prominent US anti-gay extremist Scott Lively who is accused of engineering the Uganda ‘Kill The Gays’ bill, received good news yesterday when a federal court judge ruled that Lively must stand trail for crimes against humanity for his part in helping to push and engineer Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill.

Lively stands accused of helping to play a part in the persecution, arrest and murder of gay people in Uganda.  Lively’s lawyers requested to dismiss the lawsuit, but now a federal US judge has ruled a persecution of LGBT people is indeed a crime against humanity and that Lively must stand trial.

Michael Ponsor, the US District Judge in Springfield, Massachusetts, said: ‘Widespread, systematic persecution of LGBT people constitutes a crime against humanity that unquestionably violates international norms.’

‘The history and current existence of discrimination against LGBT people is precisely what qualifies them as a distinct targeted group eligible for protection under international law.

‘The fact that a group continues to be vulnerable to widespread, systematic persecution in some parts of the world simply cannot shield one who commits a crime against humanity from liability.’

Lively the founder of Abiding Truth Ministries, an officially recognized hate group has made a career of stirring up anti-gay feelings in the USA and across the world.

He co-authored The Pink Swastika, which suggests ‘homosexuals were the truth inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities’ and the rainbow flag is a symbol of the ‘end times’.

In 2007, Lively also toured 50 cities in Russia where he is accused of recommending a ban on ‘gay propaganda’ and in 2011 was a driving force is pushing Uganda’s anti-gay laws.