I thought, after their ignorant and hateful comments about Haiti, the choice would be either Pat Robertson or Rush Limbaugh. But in reality, the religious bigotry and the attempts at “humor” at the expense of people who’ve suffered a horrific tragedy haven’t stopped an outpouring of support from the United States, and they’ve both been subject to well-deserved opprobrium for their hateful and, yes, un-Christian remarks.
No, the Face of Evil is this guy, Scott Lively, the man who last spring took his anti-gay crusade to Uganda, which, in what I’m sure is a complete coincidence, is now considering execution for people who commit “homosexual acts”.
“The gay movement is an evil institution,” he told Uganda’s Family Life Network. “The goal of the gay movement is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”
Then Lively, who has authored a book called The Pink Swastika, played into the fears raised by Uganda’s history.
“Male homosexuality has historically been, not adult to adult; it’s been adult to teenager,” he said. “It’s called pederasty — adults sodomizing teenage boys.”
Later in his trip, Lively addressed the Ugandan Parliament on the gay issue, recommending therapy to help people leave their gay lifestyle. A few months later, a bill was introduced to execute people for some homosexual acts.
Lively says he never suggested putting the death penalty into bill, and he says he thinks the bill goes too far.
“But the fact that they’re willing to stand up and say, ‘No, we are not going let you homosexualize our country!’ — that is a step in the right direction, and I would hope that it would spread to other countries,” he says.
Yeah, don’t blame him. He just went to Uganda and lied repeatedly about LGBT people and their motivations. He says he doesn’t support the death penalty, but he’s still praising the sentiment behind it. But, hey, it’s totally not his fault if the Ugandan government starts rounding up gay people and putting them to death. Nope. Not at all.