Anti-LGBT Persecution Can Form Basis For "Crimes Against Humanity" Lawsuit, Federal Judge Rules
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/pastor-who-helped-spark-ugandan-anti-gay-backlash-9a7s
Author: J. Lester Feder Source: BuzzFeed

"A U.S. federal court has held for the first time that persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is a crime against humanity that can form the basis of a lawsuit in the United States."

This means global anti-gay crusader and author of The Pink Swastika, Scott Lively, can be brought into U.S. federal court under the Alien Tort Act. Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG) can now proceed with their lawsuits against Lively.

SMUG claims Scott Lively helped instigate anti-gay attitudes in Uganda and worked with members of Parliament to pass the "Kill the Gays Bill".

He recently suggested this trip planted the seed for Russia's new law against "homosexual propaganda," saying that this legislation should be a model for the rest of the world to "protect the society from being 'homosexualized.'"

*Sigh* While I'm sure there are some people who want to make others gay, I really do believe that MOST people don't care and are just who they are and will let others be themselves. This is quite sad that people can't help but play the blame card to try and further their cause which imo isn't right (Especially in this case) when really they're just scared of something they don't understand and or have hate issues going on. The GOOD news to this however is that now that person who has done so much harm can be tried for it.

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How A Global Anti-Gay Activist Reached Into Russia
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/could-scott-lively-be-tried-for-crimes-against-hum-9a7s
Author: J.Lester Feder Source: BuzzFeed

"Lively's visits to the region came as political anti-LGBT sentiment was just gaining steam. The Russian region of Ryazan was the first to pass an anti-gay law, in May 2006. Eleven more regions followed suit beginning in 2011, until the federal law was passed in June of this year. Yet if Lively played a role in shaping anti-gay sentiments in the region, it is not a simple case of exporting US culture wars. Lively won his platform in Eastern Europe because he was useful to forces inside the region already stirring up anti-gay sentiment."

"According to the extensive documentation of Lively's career by the hate-group monitoring organization the Southern Poverty Law Center, this Holocaust conspiracy theory was Lively's "passport" to Eastern Europe. But it didn't take him overseas immediately. First it opened doors to the large Russian-speaking immigrant community around Sacramento, which was incubating increasingly militant opposition to homosexuality."