Professional gay-hater Scott Lively has long been a friend of similarly gay-hating WorldNetDaily, touting his discredited book “The Pink Swastika” and backing him in a lawsuit over his anti-gay activities in Uganda. WND has published columns by Lively for years, but not until recently did it make him a regular weekly columnist.
Lively declared at the start of his Aug. 5 column: “This is the first of a weekly column I will write for WND after several years of publishing occasional articles here. I consider WND to be the bravest and most biblically grounded conservative news and opinion source on the internet, and it is an honor to become a regular contributor.”
The rest of his column was Lively’s usual anti-LGBT claptrap, ranting against “the LGBT threat of personal destruction to those who oppose them.” Of course, Lively advocates the personal destruction of those who oppose him; he supported a proposed law in Uganda that would criminalize homosexuality (but denies he supported a death-penalty clause that was ultimately dropped).
Lively served up more of the same in later columns:
On Aug. 12, he touted how the Bible listed homosexuality among “capital crimes,” hastily adding: “This is NOT to endorse or promote capital punishment of homosexuals under the letter of today’s secular laws, even though the implicit moral principles of God’s law-above-the-law remain constant and binding.” Still, he huffed that “homosexuals have accurately been called “deviants” from time immemorial, and why authentic Christianity never condones or accommodates homosexuality or any of the sexual sins God condemns.”
On Aug. 19, he lamented that “we’ve passed the point of no return in the collapse of Judeo-Christian civilization,” adding: “Our ‘Donald Trump reprieve’ may continue into a second term, but even so, the most central aspects of the eventual Antichrist government per Revelation 11:7-8 – homosexuality and polytheism – continue to advance globally under his reign.” He also announced he had moved to Memphis to own a Bible college.
On Aug. 26, he argued that “societal acceptance of homosexual perversion” was a “greater sin” than abortion and that “as much as I still believe Donald Trump is God’s man in the White House – like a warts-and-all Old Testament-style figure from the book of Judges – he is deliberately facilitating, not opposing, the LGBT agenda within his MAGA plan.”
On Sept. 9, he huffed about “iconic former Christian strongholds that have been conquered by the LGBTs” and described Pete Buttigieg’s husband as “Buttigieg’s sodomy partner in a false ‘marriage.'”
On Sept. 23, he insisted that real Christians must discriminate against the LGBT community and that idea of homophobia (which he clearly suffers from) is merely an example of “the left’s abuse of language.”
On Oct. 7, he called transgenderism “self-evident mental illness” and promotes a book he wrote that “offers my Bible-based analysis of the centrality of the LGBT movement and agenda in the last days and incorporates all major references to homosexuality from Genesis to Revelation. I assert that so-called ‘gay theology’ is the heresy of the last days warned about by the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 2 and that the consistent warning of Scripture is that widespread social acceptance of extreme sexual perversion (most especially homosexuality) is always a harbinger of the wrath of God.”
So: more of the same from Lively.