WASHINGTON – Today the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released a detailed report of Scott Lively’s anti-LGBT record – particularly his record of exporting hate overseas.

According to the well documented report, Lively describes being gay as a “personality disorder” and his struggle against equality as “a war” in which only one side can prevail, but perhaps his most offensive belief is that gay men were the cause of the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.

In the U.S., Lively is largely considered a fringe extremist, even by other anti-LGBT activists, but he has never been content to spread extremism and hate at home. He first traveled to Uganda in 2002 to warn about the LGBT menace to that country and he returned in 2009 to headline a conference on “the dangers of homosexuality.” Many Ugandan activists believe that he was one of the inspirations for the harsh anti-homosexuality bill that was enacted in 2014, which punishes same sex intimacy with penalties that can include life in prison.

Lively has also been a frequent visitor to Eastern Europe, where he spent months in 2006-2007 on a 50-city tour of the former Soviet Union. Wherever he goes, Lively presents himself as a world-renowned expert on LGBT issues and urges policymakers to pass laws that crack down on LGBT rights and the right of free expression. Lively takes personal credit for the passage of the Russian “gay propaganda” law, which he says he proposed back in 2007.

Although he publicly proclaimed that he was stepping away from the frontlines of the culture war in 2011, Lively has made a big comeback. Last year he traveled to the United Kingdom and back to Russia to promote his extreme views. He recently visited Washington, DC to announce the formation of a Coalition for Family Values to rally his fellow extremists from around the world to the cause of blocking equality and spreading distortions and lies about LGBT people. 

The full report is available at: https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/Scott_Lively_Report.pdf

Lively also happens to be a fringe candidate for Massachusetts Governor as well as one of the most notorious Americans working against LGBT equality abroad. 

The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.

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