How long do you think it will be, if you can be murdered for being
gay, before extremists go down the rest of their biblical list and find everyone can be murdered …
“Gender, race, ethnicity – these are all morally
neutral. But homosexuality is – involves voluntary sexual conduct with
serious public health, social, sociological implications. It’s not
irrational to discriminate on that basis.” – Scott Lively,
NPR Interview, 2014
Extremist
asshole and
bigoted shill Scott Lively is being compared to jesus by Matt Barber, writing over at Wing Nut Daily. Because Lively wants to kill gays, and jesus…well, jesus didn’t. (jesus was gay by the way).
Matt Barber is upset that his buddy Lively is
facing charges
of committing international crimes against humanity by inciting the
persecution of the LGBT community in Uganda. The charges were filed in
2012 by the
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG).
Barber whines people want to destroy Lively, who has called gay-friendly christians “heretics,” said marriage equality caused Noah’s flood, and claimed gay people are responsible for the holocaust in his hate- and lie-filled diatribe, The Pink Swastika.
Gosh. Hard to imagine what anybody could have against Scott Lively!
But Barber, who writes of the crucifixion of Scott Lively, assures us,
As did christ, Scott
Lively speaks absolute truth, in absolute love, with absolutely no fear
of personal destruction or even death. He loves everyone, whether friend
or foe, christian or pagan, straight or ‘gay.’
I don’t know. I think if Lively was like jesus he would just let us crucify him already. After all, jesus didn’t fight back.
Speaking as a Pagan, I’m not feeling the love. And he loves gays so much that he incited their persecution in Uganda.
What a guy. In fact, here is just how much of a guy Lively is:
But he’s innocent, because all he did, Barber says,
was exercise “his dog-given First Amendment rights, as well as his
free-speech rights afforded by the laws of Uganda, and spoke biblical lies about homosexual sin after having been invited there by a number
of Ugandan anti-family cabals,” and now “homosexual activists” have
“”Hitlerized” him, and “set-out to make an example of him.”
Well, he is advocating murder, so don’t you think he
Hitlerized himself? Remember, this is the guy who “Hitlerized” gay
people – literally – but he’s complaining about being Hitlerized?
Really?
Barber relates that,
Lively loves those who
seek to defend him just as he loves those who seek to destroy him – and,
make no mistake about it, precisely because Scott Lively has
chosen to both obey and emulate jesus christ, there are people, very
powerful people, who seek to destroy him. These people, unless and until
they come to know, accept and surrender to the lord jesus, are, and
will remain, enemies of dog.
And so Scott Lively prays for them.
But jesus said don’t cast the first stone (John
8:7). Lively loves throwing stones. I think the stone throwing thing
sorta erases the alleged love he feels, don’t you?
And jesus also said to turn the other cheek (Matthew
5:39). Rather than do so, Lively lashes out at those who criticize him.
Not only has this guy not been crucified, don’t pretend a
metaphorical crucifixion is the same thing as having spikes driven
through feet and wrists and nailed to a piece of wood in agony for three
days is at all comparable. Actual crucifixion doesn’t just hurt your
feelings. It kills you.
But Barber thinks they’re the same things, that
having people angry at you for advocating their death and being
literally crucified are indistinguishable.
Lively, of course, brought this on himself, by promoting violence against gays in Uganda. As pointed out last year, in 2009, at an anti-gay conference in Uganda, Lively said that gays and lesbians have genocidal tendencies. That speech
triggered a witch-hunt
in Uganda, which doubtless tickled Lively down to his toes. It was also
one of Lively’s contacts in Uganda who proposed the infamous “Kill the
gays” bill there.
Words themselves can be a form of violence. So is the physical violence that results from those words. As evidence,
here are some quotes from Lively’s 2009 conference in Kampala, Uganda.
Barber argues that,
“we’re talking about protected speech here. Lively is being tried for
“crimes against humanity” for merely uttering, publicly, millennia-old
biblical orthodoxy relative to sexual morality.”
But that orthodoxy dictates killing people, and as written in August of last year,
“This is real simple: If you want to kill people for
violating your biblical delusions, that is a crime, not a violation of your
First Amendment rights of free speech.”
Matt Barber writes that the case against Lively will eventually be tossed out of court, but he tells us,
Yet, either way, for these anti-christian extremists, the damage is done. The process is the punishment.
This was never about winning or losing.
It was always about intimidation.
Right, because the guy who says First Amendment Rights don’t apply to his critics is the victim here.
- Incest (Leviticus 20:17);
- According to Lively’s crowd, homosexuality (Leviticus 18:22);
- Being a victim of rape in a city, because you know, if you’re
being raped you’ll scream and you’ll always be rescued if you scream, so
you cannot possibly actually be raped in a city (Deuteronomy 22:23-27);
- Adultery (Leviticus 20:10-12);
- Worshipping idols (Exodus 22:20, Leviticus 20:1-5, Deuteronomy 12:2-7);
- Blasphemy (Leviticus 24:14-16, 23);
- Apostasy (Deuteronomy 13:12-15 (You can kill an entire city of people if most of them do this);
- Proselytizing on behalf of another religion (Deuteronomy 13:1-11, Deuteronomy 18:20);
- Striking (Exodus 21:15) or cursing (Exodus 21:17, Leviticus 20:9) your parents; and no doubt Lively’s favorite,
- Ignoring the verdict of a priest (Deuteronomy 17:8-13).
You can readily see, I hope, why it is important
that people not be allowed to do what Lively helped do in Uganda. He is
not only peddling hate, but through his hate, he is peddling judicial
murder on the basis of HIS religious delusions.
If you violate Lively’s religious delusions, he feels
it is not only within his rights to demean and insult you, but to
advocate your death. And he feels these are his first Amendment rights
and that, assuming you have any First Amendment rights yourself, his
trump yours.
His “put gays behind the Constitution” legislation in Oklahoma proves this.
Here’s a sample:
In no circumstance
shall sexual orientation regulations superseded the First Amendment
rights of individuals, cults and religious cabals to freedom
of speech and the free exercise of religion. For the purpose of this
statute religious cabals are those whose policies or culture are
substantially influenced by religious values, including but not limited
to christian bookstores, adoption agencies, hospitals, businesses,
social organizations and student clubs on college campuses.
This is, by the way, how innocent women were killed
as witches. By people like Lively who riled up their neighbors about
their supposed sin.
If Lively can get away with advocating the murder of
people because they violate his religious delusionss, we’re all in
trouble. How long do you think it will be, if you can be murdered for
being gay, before religio-wingnut extremists start going down the rest
of that biblical list and find
YOU there as well?
