For more than a decade, we’ve been documenting Scott Lively’s hate and homophobia as expressed at WorldNetDaily — but it appears that hate-filled ride is coming to an end. He announced that his Feb. 17 column would be his last, and he made sure to get more hateful insults in before praising Donald Trump for picking up his homophobic banner:
There’s nothing like a heart attack to clarify one’s priorities. Mine was on Nov. 25 of last year, just two weeks before my self-designated “retirement” date – my 67th birthday. In the subsequent weeks I’ve devoted many hours to contemplating how I’d like to spend my remaining days on this earth, and continuing to fight the culture war is near the bottom of the list.
If I were still truly needed in that fight, I would press on as a matter of honor, but truth be told I have little more to offer these days but memories and stories from my many battles of the past. Indeed, on that frightening day in November, I felt a bit like bloodied and exhausted Capt. John Miller from the final action scene of Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” based on the real-life Battle for the Merderet Bridge in Normandy.
In God’s will and timing I was spiritually drafted into the culture war in the late 1980s just as the LGBT movement began to actually achieve its goal of cultural supremacy over Christianity in waves of increasing aggression. For more than 30 years I was one of a handful of single-issue front-line Christian activists fighting to hold back the relentless homo-fascist Wehrmacht and suffering brutal punishment for it. At the very end, after “discrimination” against homosexuality had long been made a social stigma (and in some cases a crime), and many in the conservative movement had ignominiously surrendered to so-called “gay marriage” after Obergefell v. Hodges, our forces of resistance had fallen back to our last stand: transsexualism – the “T” stage of the chronologically progressive LGBT agenda – our own “Merderet Bridge.”
There’s nothing like a heart attack to clarify one’s priorities. Mine was on Nov. 25 of last year, just two weeks before my self-designated “retirement” date – my 67th birthday. In the subsequent weeks I’ve devoted many hours to contemplating how I’d like to spend my remaining days on this earth, and continuing to fight the culture war is near the bottom of the list.
If I were still truly needed in that fight, I would press on as a matter of honor, but truth be told I have little more to offer these days but memories and stories from my many battles of the past. Indeed, on that frightening day in November, I felt a bit like bloodied and exhausted Capt. John Miller from the final action scene of Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” based on the real-life Battle for the Merderet Bridge in Normandy.
In God’s will and timing I was spiritually drafted into the culture war in the late 1980s just as the LGBT movement began to actually achieve its goal of cultural supremacy over Christianity in waves of increasing aggression. For more than 30 years I was one of a handful of single-issue front-line Christian activists fighting to hold back the relentless homo-fascist Wehrmacht and suffering brutal punishment for it. At the very end, after “discrimination” against homosexuality had long been made a social stigma (and in some cases a crime), and many in the conservative movement had ignominiously surrendered to so-called “gay marriage” after Obergefell v. Hodges, our forces of resistance had fallen back to our last stand: transsexualism – the “T” stage of the chronologically progressive LGBT agenda – our own “Merderet Bridge.”
Lively made sure to praise WND on his way out the door:
I first started writing for WND in September of 2012 on an occasional basis. I had always greatly respected and admired WND founder Joseph Farah back to his days running the conservative Sacramento Union newspaper and ghostwriting books for Rush Limbaugh. When without prompting on my part he publicly defended the veracity of my book “The Pink Swastika” (one of the most banned book of the 20th century) in response to critics trying to get me canceled by WND, I recognized him as a man of rare courage and integrity. After that I made WND the exclusive venue for my articles – other than my own newsletter. I only met the man in person once, a couple of years ago, when he invited me to his home and we went out to dinner with our wives. I then wrote a piece lauding him as “The Stonewall Jackson of American First Media” and his important role as the great pioneer of Christian conservative media on the internet.
Ah, yes, we remember that column, which ignored the fact that Jackson was accidentally shot by his own troops. Lively continued:
I also came to respect and admire WND’s David Kupelian, one of the finest writers and clearest thinking cultural analysts I’ve ever had the pleasure to know. It was he who invited me to write a weekly column when I called to ask how I might help WND in the aftermath of Joseph’s terrible stroke. We shared our sense of outrage that while Joseph was still in a hospital bed, the Washington Post ran a cruel and malicious hit piece against him. I was one of the few people reaching out at that time who understood from personal experience just how vile the leftist media can be. I felt and still feel a very strong bond with both of these fine men.
As we recall, WND kept Farah’s stroke a secret until the Post contacted it for reaction to its reporting — finally going public with it seemingly so it can play victim — and it has never refuted anything the Post reported.
Then it was time for a formal farewell:
But as of today I am retiring from WND in keeping with my larger lifestyle changes away from war and toward life as a civilian – cultivating the interests and activities of a senior citizen, and enjoying the best elements of the civilization I fought so hard to conserve: art and music, the natural beauty of God’s creation and the human works in complement to it, the many delights and diversions of grandchildren.
[…]So this, my 456th column, is my final good-bye to my WND readers. I don’t have a clue how many of you there are beyond the few hundreds who have sought me out over the years to praise or chastise me for my viewpoints. If you’d like to continue reading my stuff, just let me know by email at sdllaw@protonmail.com and I’ll add you to my list. I expect to keep writing my own newsletter till the day I die.
I wish God’s best for each and every one of you, and for his bounty and blessing to be poured out on WND as an iconic American institution that continues to honor Him.
Not sure how it honors Good to spew hate at people, but he has always exempted himself from the criticism he hurls at others. And WND resurgent money begs suggest that it may soon be joining Lively in retirement.