Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues American Evangelist

[steve2470]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/us/ugandan-gay-rights-group-sues-scott-lively-an-american-evangelist.html

A Ugandan gay rights group filed suit against an American evangelist, Scott Lively, in federal in Massachusetts on Wednesday, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.

The lawsuit alleges that beginning in 2002, Mr. Lively conspired with religious and political leaders in Uganda to whip up anti-gay hysteria with warnings that homosexuals would sodomize African children and corrupt their culture.

The Ugandan legislature considered a bill in 2009, proposed by one of Mr. Lively’s Ugandan contacts, that would have imposed the death sentence for homosexual behavior. That bill was at first withdrawn after an outcry from the United States and European nations that are among major aid donors to Uganda, but a revised bill was reintroduced last month.

Mr. Lively is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda under the alien tort statute, which allows foreigners to sue in American courts in situations alleging the violation of international law. The suit claims that Mr. Lively’s actions resulted in the persecution, arrest, torture and murder of homosexuals in Uganda.

[xchrom]

1. I hope they win & get boat loads of Moolah. Nt

[Erose999]

2. Thats what people on the KONY 2012 bandwagon don't understand... the legitimate gov't of Uganda is

just as fucked up as Kony in some respects... such as last years "Kill the Gays" legislation.

[shcrane71]

3. Will the US First Amendment that protests this preacher's hate speech domestically

protect the hater in Uganda? Is this an international court?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. Take everything the fucker's got.

Please, do the world a service.

[Initech]

5. They should go after uber-bigot Rick Warren as well.

This ia a guy who flew Ugandan leaders to his compound, er, church to discuss getting this awful law passed. He's in it as knee deep as this guy is.

[gratuitous]

6. I hoped it was Scott Lively when I clicked on the post

I refer to a certain radio show host as a vile human being, but Mr. Lively also qualifies. For those of a certain vintage, the name Scott Lively recalls the heyday of the Oregon Citizens Alliance and Lon Mabon from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Lively was Mabon's right hand man, doling out the hatred and bigotry with the big ladle. When the market for homophobia began drying up, Mabon retired, but Lively has gone international.

I hope his activities in Uganda finally break him, and put him out to pasture forever.