Things have now gotten so desperate for David Barton and WallBuilders that they are reduced to calling in support from none other than Scott Lively to defend Barton’s work by attacking Warren Throckmorton, Barton’s primary critic.
Lively, as you know, is widely seen as the inspiration behind Uganda’s notorious “kill the gays” legislation and the author of the book “The Pink Swastika,” which claims that “the Nazi Party was conceived, organized and controlled throughout its short history by masculine-oriented male homosexuals who hid their sexual proclivities from the public, in part by publicly persecuting one group of their political enemies: out-of-the-closet effeminate-oriented homosexuals aligned with the German Communist Party.”
Throckmorton has likewise been a vocal critic of Lively’s “scholarship” and so the the geniuses at WallBuilders thought it would be a good idea of have Lively come on the program and explain that what is happening to Barton is the same thing that happened to him:
I had the same kind of run-in with Mr. Throckmorton myself. I’m the author of a history book along with Jewish researcher Kevin Abrams called “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party.” Very controversial but heavily documented and Mr. Throckmorton has attempted to attack my work in the very same way.
Why WallBuilders thinks this comparison helps Barton’s cause is utterly beyond our comprehension.
Green and Lively also suggested that Throckmorton is responsible for some sort of widespread conspiracy against anti-gay Religious Right leaders because he is favorably quoted on “really nasty anti-Christian blogs” such as Box Turtle Bulletin, Joe.My.God, and Truth Wins Out and engages in interaction with us here at Right Wing Watch:
Green: I noticed in your article you said just Google his name along with these really nasty anti-Christian blogs like Box Turtle Bulletin, Truth Wins Out, Joe.My.God, I mean they got some really nasty stuff on there …
Lively: Very nasty.
Green: And apparently he’s kind of a champion of these guys. They really kind of see him as a hero. They quote him all the time.
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Lively: There’s a lot of interaction there between him and some of the other people and the group Right Wing Watch …
Green: Oh yeah, those guys love us. They just love us. They love us so much that they watch us all the time and listen to us all the time. They’re always taking stuff out of context and out of quotes … so to all of our friends at Right Wing Watch and these other liberal blogs and whatnot listening today, we just want to say “hi, love ya, Lord bless you.”
Lively: Amen. Hey, I want these people to be saved. I want them to be turned from the foolishness of their positions but I’m not simply going to sit back when they’re attacking people who are standing for biblical truth.
It is interesting that Green would accuse us taking things out of context while categotically refusing to even acknowledge all of the instances we have documented of Barton spreading falsehoods, such as claiming that Constitution directly quotes the Bible “verbatim”:
