Scott Lively

Scott Lively

Scott Douglas Lively is an American author, attorney and activist, noted for his opposition to LGBT rights and his involvement in the ex-gay movement. He is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization located in Temecula, California, and the former state director of the California branch of the American Family Association. Lively has called for the criminalization of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" as far back as 2007, and is involved in pending anti-gay legislation in Uganda.

Lively formed Watchmen on the Walls, an evangelical ministry, in Riga, Latvia.

According to a January 2011 profile, Lively "has not changed his view that gays are 'agents of America’s moral decline', but has refocused his approach to fit his flock in Springfield, Massachusetts" and "is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden."

Read more about Scott Lively:  The Pink Swastika, Legal Case, Activism in Uganda, Criticism, Bibliography, See Also

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