Scott Lively

Earlier this month, Scott Lively delivered an hour long speech entitled "The Global Threat of Homosexuality" at Resurrection Life of Jesus church in Sacramento and it was, as you can imagine, chock full of all sorts of anti-gay lunacy as Lively sought to make clear that homosexuality is not a sin just like any other sin, but rather a warning sign that our society is on the verge of collapse:

I want to just attack this idea that people have raised that homosexuality is just another sin because that's not true and the more that we embrace that, the more that we accept that as a concept, the more distant we are from understanding the warning that God gives us when we see this phenomenon in our society.

When you see the gay pride parade going down the street in the major cities, what banner are they flying over them? They're flying the banner of the rainbow. What is the rainbow? The rainbow is God's covenant with man never to destory the Earth by water again ... So there's an enormous warning there and, at the same time, we're also given a clue as to what's happening with apostasy in the modern age when people will raise the rainbow flag - and there's a passage in Isiah, I forget the chapter and verse, that says "they parade their sin like Sodom." And that is what is exactly going on with people who have defined themselves by this particular behavior and lifestyle. They parade their sin like Sodom. And they do it under the rainbow banner almost as if they're saying "God, you can do nothing to us" because they don't believe that Sodom was destroyed because of homosexuality so they aren't learning the lesson from that.

In fifty years we have seen this tiny group of people - they really only represent about two percent of the population - that has grown from being a reviled subculture to now having more power in the legislatures and courtrooms of the world than the Christian church does. In fifty years! Nothing has ever grown that fast globally, nothing. Not Islam, not Darwinism, not Marxism, nothing has ever grown that fast. Which shows you that this is a spiritual phenomenon that is unparallelled and that's why God has selected it, singled out this particular behavior to be the indicator of extreme apostasy, the furthest edge of deviance and the warning sign that things are in really, really bad shape.

Scott Lively has decided that the best way to celebrate this holiday season is by spreading "the gift of homophobia" by making his book "Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the ’Gay’ Agenda" available for free to everyone:

I’m feeling generous this holiday season, and so I’ve decided to give a gift that is sure to be remembered for years to come. It is the gift of “Homophobia” and, as one of the world’s leading “Homophobes,” I want to share it with the entire world, by giving away free copies of my “Homophobic” textbook “Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the ’Gay’ Agenda.” You can download it in PDF form without charge at http://www.defendthefamily.com/rtr/. The file is small enough to send it on by email to your friends and family.

Of course, I’m being sarcastic about the term “homophobia” since that is defined as an anxiety disorder characterized by hate and fear of homosexuals. Who would want that?

What I’m actually offering is the Gift of Knowledge, grounded in an authentic Biblical world-view, earned in part through 20 years of faithful service to the cause of Christ, received in part through no effort of my own by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit -- all glory to God.

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This is the most important book I have ever written, and I’ve crafted it to be the very best work of which I am capable. It is easy to read and use, but contains no fluff. It contains all of the most important insights and observations I have acquired on this issue during 20 years of front-lines activism.

In other times I might have been more possessive of this book, and more profit-minded. But our situation here in America and throughout Christian civilization is dire. The homosexual agenda must be stopped, and contributing toward that goal is more important to me than financial remuneration.

Please accept this book as my gift. Read it and use it to help advance our pro-family cause.

In the same interview with Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality in which Scott Lively revealed that he is contemplating filing defamation lawsuits because he says that false statements about anti-gay activism are posing a threat to his life, he also lamented the failure of a 1992 effort to pass a constitutional amendment in Oregon that would have declared homosexuality to be "abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse."

At the time, Lively was serving as Director of Communications for the Oregon Citizens Alliance, the organization responsible for a ballot initiative known as Measure 9 that would have required public schools to teach that "homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism and masochism [are] abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse and that these behaviors are to be discouraged and avoided."

The measure failed, much to Lively's dismay, because had it passed the "[gay] agenda would have been stopped cold":

Lively: I was the Communications Director for the Oregon Citizens Alliance and we had filed a ballot measure for the 1992 election. We filed it in 1991 and it set off a firestorm that really is the most intense political battle on the homosexual issue that has ever taken place in America. It was really like the gates of Hell kicked open and all the demons came out. Unbelievable level of hostility and manipulation and dirty tricks.

LaBarbera: What you Measure 9 have done?

Lively: Well, it would have amended the state Constitution to define homosexuality as unnatural and perverse - abnormal, unnatural, and perverse; we used the three words unnatural, abnormal, and perverse.

And by doing that, it would have stopped all of the government promotion of the homosexual agenda. This measure would have stopped all of that. It would have, frankly, triggered a landslide of similar measures across the country and we wouldn't be having these conversations today because the agenda would have been stopped cold.

Scott Lively of Defend the Family International appeared on Peter LaBarbera’s Americans For Truth Radio Hour today to discuss his win of this year’s “American Truth Teller” award. Lively and LaBarbera joked about how gays and lesbians deny “trying to corrupt the minds of young people” and “recruit” them into homosexuality. Lively explained that gays and lesbians deny what he claims is “most true” about them, including false claims that homosexuality is linked to pedophilia, AIDS, and the recruitment of “not just children but everyone they can get their hands on.” He concluded that gay people are in “pursuit of the complete control of society” and seek “absolute control” in order to “begin controlling every person within their grip”:

LaBarbera: Scott, are you saying that homosexual activists are actually trying to corrupt the minds of young people?

Lively: It can’t be, no, how can anyone say such a thing?

LaBarbera: It’s the only issue of which there is no issue where there is no influence at all from the older to the younger, right Scott? Lively: The things that they scream about the loudest are the things that are the most true and the most damaging to them. The connection between homosexuality and AIDS, the connection between homosexuality and pedophilia, the recruitment of children, not just children but everyone they can get their hands on into the homosexual lifestyle, and the desire of the movement to achieve power.

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LaBarbera: They are all about demonizing Christians like us, especially Christians, there’s always a special hatred for the Christians, and so like you said Scott, ‘anything it takes,’ it’s a utilitarian movement.

Lively: And the question is, why? Why do they do this? Because we stand in the way of their pursuit of the complete control of society. This isn’t about tolerance, it’s not acceptance, it isn’t even about accepting all things gay; this is about absolute control. And every place that they got it, and they do have it in some places, they use it, and they punish anyone who disagrees with them and then they begin controlling every person within their grip.