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Scott Lively #homophobia defendthefamily.com

Don't Be Complacent

When a child voices personal questions about the possibility of being "gay" to school officials, the parents may never hear about it. The child is often referred to outside "gay" counseling centers run by active homosexuals. Such "gay" centers are the equivalent of military recruiting offices whose purpose is to draw young people into the gay lifestyle. These centers often distribute literature filled with graphic sexual imagery, including drawings and photographs of men engaged in oral and anal sodomy and of more bizarre perversions with names like "rimming" and "fisting." If you think this kind of thing is a rarity in homosexual literature, pick up any "gay" newspaper or magazine and thumb through it. (If you don't know where to find one, check your local big-city library or community center - these publications will often be very prominent among the stacks of free newspapers, and are usually very accessible to children.)

Often the first time parents hear about a child's gender identity problem is when the child or young person confesses it to them or "comes out." This, of course, usually occurs long after the "gay" identity has solidified in the young person's mind. For many people, once this has occurred, it is too late. Once a person has been drawn in by the cult-like seductiveness of the "gay" lifestyle, with its many reinforcements, he or she is statistically likely to remain in that lifestyle - despite all of the misery that attends it. This is why parents must act before their child is recruited. You must act now to protect your child from homosexuality.

Scott Lively #homophobia defendthefamily.com

One effective response to "Why do you hate homosexuals?" is to turn the tables on your opponent and immediately say "Here's a better question. Why do you hate my child?" If simple moral opposition to homosexuality is presumed to be evidence of hatred, it is certainly no less reasonable to suggest that pushing the destructive "gay" lifestyle on children is even better evidence of hatred. Another way to respond is to unmask the tactic for what it is. You respond, "You're trying to change the subject and plant the suggestion that any opposition to homosexuality is hateful. Opposition to homosexuality is not hateful and I'm not going to let you change the subject. The subject is..."

Scott Lively #fundie defendthefamily.com

One of the most important concepts a parent can teach a child is the value of logical thinking. Logic helps a child to challenge and to test new ideas, preventing him from simply being swept along by his emotions. Unfortunately, the trend in our culture is for people to let themselves be ruled by their feelings and not by logic. [...] For example, we have seen that pro-"gay" propaganda is intellectually very shallow, yet many non-homosexuals are passionate defenders of the "gay" lifestyle. For many such defenders, whose ranks include a great many young people, the sole explanation for their pro-"gay" stance is their susceptibility to emotional manipulation. They have bought into the notion that "gays" are helpless victims, or confused "gays" with racial groups who are genuinely disadvantaged, and because of their reaction to these issues, preexisting emotions take over. Unfortunately, factual arguments have little impact on feelings-reliant people, so it is very difficult to persuade them of the truth once they have made an emotional commitment to a position.

Scott Lively #fundie defendthefamily.com

In March of this year (2009) I had the privilege of addressing members of the Ugandan parliament in their national assembly hall when the anti-homosexuality law was just being considered. I urged them to pattern their bill on some American laws regarding alcoholism and drug abuse. I cited my own pre-Christian experience being arrested for drunk driving. I was given and chose the option of therapy which turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life. I also cited the policy in some U.S. jurisdictions regarding marijuana. Criminalization of the drug prevents its users from promoting it, and
discourages non-users from starting, even while the law itself is very lightly enforced, if at all. Additionally, I urged them to actively promote the marriage model in their schools as a form of inoculation to the anti-family messages flooding their country through Western media.

All of my suggestions were ignored (despite which fact I am being blamed for the proposed law as written by certain major media outlets and the “gay” blogosphere.) Nevertheless, I commend the courage of the Ugandan people.

Scott Lively #fundie #homophobia defendthefamily.com

[Scott Lively is being sued for crimes against humanity due to his connection with Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Bill.]

This week marks the anniversary of the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. December 10th is International Human Rights Day. Unfortunately, this is a day celebrated mostly by leftists, who have hijacked “human rights” in recent times to serve their own misguided agenda. However, true human rights as they have been understood through the centuries spring from and epitomize the biblical world view.

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Moreover, this "right to sodomy" actually undermines true human rights, as exemplified by the collapse of the Magna Charta in the United Kingdom. The first principle of that venerable human rights document declares that "The English Church shall be free." This principle, established in the bedrock of British jurisprudence in 1215, stood unshakable for nearly 800 years until the rise of the "gay" movement which has in just the past decade achieved the power to redefine religious liberty as "homophobia" and to crush it under the heels of its pink jackboots.

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In less than a month, on January 7th, 2013 I will appear in federal court here in Springfield, Massachusetts with my attorney from Liberty Counsel. There, he will present our oral argument in support of our Motion to Dismiss the case against me for “Crimes Against Humanity.” (http://www.scottlively.net/2012/06/26/motion-to-dismiss-smug-lawsuit/) I am being sued by Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) for preaching against homosexuality in that country. At issue is the strength of the First Amendment to protect my right to preach the Gospel in a foreign country.

In essence, the Plaintiffs contend that the same European embrace of homosexual “human rights” that empowered the SORs of the UK and took down the Magna Charta represents a new international legal norm that must be enforced across the globe. Thus, even though preaching against homosexuality is protected speech both in Uganda and the United States, I should be held liable for it based on SMUG’s interpretation of “international law.” Granted, it seems ridiculous, but so did the idea of the SORs before they became law in the UK.

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My friends, understand the gravity of what I am saying. If the First Amendment falls to the “gays” like the Magna Charta did, true human rights will be finished in America (and by extension the rest of the western world). There is no fall-back position. The First Amendment is the last bastion of freedom for Christians. If it fails, serious persecution of all who dare to speak the truth of the Bible will follow close behind. Pray fervently that it will stand!

Scott Lively #fundie defendthefamily.com

Scott Lively #fundie #homophobia defendthefamily.com

Nearly every item of the homosexual agenda has been achieved except the final affront to their dreams, marriage. Yet time, and population trends are on their side and they expect to win this victory in due time. So their attention has moved to the final chapter of their vision to remake society in their own image: the destruction of the Christian church and revenge against all of those who opposed them through their long “struggle for equal rights.“ The weapon of their vengeance is the “hate crimes” law, passed as an amendment to an essential defense appropriations bill, and signed into law by President Obama, whose administration includes seventy open homosexuals and an unknown number of “closeted” ones.

Make no mistake, “hate crimes” is nothing more or less than a formula for silencing Christians. Ostensibly the law is designed to enhance the sentences of violent criminals whose motive is dislike of homosexuals rather than mere greed or anger, However, the real purpose of this law is to focus law enforcement, judicial and public policy instruments against the belief that homosexuality is wrong and harmful, and to associate this belief with criminality. Eventually, speech against homosexuality will be criminalized independently of any violent act (as in already true in several countries), but until then the “gays” and their allies will simply act as if this is already the law.

Scott Lively #fundie defendthefamily.com

Leaving religion aside, the rationale for a society to limit sex to marriage is fairly basic. Marriage “sanctifies” what is otherwise merely self-centered pleasure-seeking, while also protecting individuals and society from most of the problems associated with “unwanted” children, sexual diseases and serial relationships. (How many of our most pressing social problems today are directly or indirectly related to these factors?)

Once a society abandons marriage as the prerequisite for sexual relations, however, there remains scant logical grounds to restrict any form of sexual deviance or promiscuity. For example, on what grounds can a society deny homosexuals freedom of conduct if non-homosexuals have been permitted to engage in similar disease-transmitting sexual acts? And if public health considerations no longer outweigh the “right” to sexual freedom under the law, what justifies continued limitations upon sado-masochism, incest, beastiality and even pedophilia? A society is left with no bases for regulating sexual conduct but its surviving moral standards and the legal concept of “mutual consent.”

Can we have confidence that America’s moral standards will present a lasting barrier to the continued escalation of sexual deviance? Certainly not with regard to consensual sex between adults. A quick perusal of the menu of available pornography on the Internet reveals that battle has been lost. But will the line hold against the legitimization of adult-child sex? The answer to that lies in the hands of the “gay” activists, whose dedication to their own sexual freedom has driven the sexual revolution.

Scott Lively #homophobia defendthefamily.com

Most people don’t realize that male homosexuality does not always lean to the effeminate. Historically, male homosexuality was much more often associated with hyper-masculine warrior societies which were usually very brutal and very politically aggressive. The most recent example was in Germany. Hitler’s initial power base when he launched the Nazi Party was a private homosexual military force organized and trained by a notorious pederast named Gerhard Rossbach. Rossbach’s homosexual partner Ernst Roehm, who was also Hitler’s partner in forming and building the Nazi Party, converted the “gay” Rossbachbund into the dreaded SA Brownshirts.