Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues American Evangelist

[Newsjock]

Source: New York Times

A Ugandan gay rights group filed suit against an American evangelist, Scott Lively, in federal court in Massachusetts on Wednesday, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.

The lawsuit alleges that beginning in 2002, Mr. Lively conspired with religious and political leaders in Uganda to whip up anti-gay hysteria with warnings that homosexuals would sodomize African children and corrupt their culture.

The Ugandan legislature considered a bill in 2009, proposed by one of Mr. Lively’s Ugandan contacts, that would have imposed the death sentence for homosexual behavior. That bill was at first withdrawn after an outcry from the United States and European nations that are among major aid donors to Uganda, but a revised bill was reintroduced last month.

Mr. Lively is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda under the alien tort statute, which allows foreigners to sue in American courts in situations alleging the violation of international law. The suit claims that Mr. Lively’s actions resulted in the persecution, arrest, torture and murder of homosexuals in Uganda.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/us/ugandan-gay-rights-group-sues-scott-lively-an-american-evangelist.html

[Hugabear]

1. Make no mistake - the extreme Christian right would absolutely love to do that here in the US

If they could impose the death penalty for homosexuality here in the US, they would in a heartbeat.

[RKP5637]

2. Yes, they definitely would. I think many Americans remain far too naive about what the Christian

right is really about in the US. It's all about power, control, persecution and the absence of a democracy in favor of a theocratic dystopia with biblical punishment dealt out. It's backward and could throw this county backward a couple of hundred years or more in terms of human rights.

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Just wondering how scott lively would feel if he were given the death penalty?

[David__77]

4. I hate that scumbag Scott Lively.

He used to be based in my area, running an office for his anti-gay organizing. He fled the state some time ago. He was out with his family protesting against the local United Way when they enacted a non-discrimination policy. Quite sad. He wrote books characterizing the German national socialist movement as innately homosexual; ironic since he employed national socialist propaganda techniques to do so.

[LeftishBrit]

5. What a vile man. I hope they win their case against him.

Just another supporter of terrorism.

[sarcasmo]

6. A planet without religion would be a perfect planet.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Not really. Nasty people would just substitute other ideologies for religion

[sendero]

11. But they would no longer be able to claim..

... "I'm doing God's will".

The current crop of Christians couldn't be less like Jesus if they tried.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. No, but some icon would unite each spontaneous granfalloon

And some leader would tout the group's superiority, thus the inferiority of the non-members.



On the creation of Bokononism:

I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise.

[Posteritatis]

8. Religions don't have a monopoly on assholes. (nt)

[Enrique]

9. I bet this is the last thing he expected

he probably scoured the globe for the most vulnerable community he could find to fuck with, with the least probability of them fighting back, he decided to go with gays in Uganda, and now here they are in Massachussetts, suing his ass for violating international law. As Cenk Uygur would say, "they're coming for you!"

[sarcasmo]

10. More proff that religion is the problem.