It Takes One Sociopath to Know One, Scott Lively

Family-values crusader, Scott Lively, a former alcoholic and homeless drifter found God in the mid 1980s along with his ‘calling’ as a charismatic public speaker. He joined a conservative evangelical church and took a job as communications director for the Oregon Citizens Alliance, The group, which was affiliated with the then powerful Christian Coalition, is where his career began as a rabid anti-gay activist.

Too radical for the mainstream family values movement, his ideas were embraced by the far right. His ideology was also embraced abroad, including in the former Soviet Union where he helped advance anti-gay legislation.

But he has had the biggest influence on the country of Uganda. Before his arrival, Ugandan’s had never even heard of what he coined, the ‘gay agenda.’

During his first visit in 2002 at an anti-porn conference he warned attendees that Western Liberals were sending homosexuals to infiltrate Ugandan society to recruit their children.

In 2009 he returned, and with Stephen Langa, a Ugandan Assemblies of God pastor, they staged a three day conference that revealed the “hidden and dark” gay agenda. He told attendees that the gay movement was an “evil institution” that sought to “defeat the marriage-based society” and crush anyone who stood up to its nefarious agenda.

Lively proclaimed, “They are so far from normalcy that they’re killers. They’re serial killers, mass murderers. They’re sociopaths. There’s no mercy at all, there’s no nurturing, no caring about anybody else…This is the kind of person it takes to run a gas chamber. ” He added that the genocide in neighboring Rwanda “probably involved these guys.”

Africans, hearing this crap for the first time, believed it was true—and they were burning with rage.”

Last month, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that increases the penalties for homosexuality. As approved, the law calls for life imprisonment for the crime of “aggravated homosexuality.” A previous version of the bill called for the death penalty.

Thank you, sociopathic accessory to murder, Scott Lively.