California GOP Group Hosts Author Who Claims Gays Behind Holocaust
A chapter of a group once described by Ronald Reagan as the 鈥渃onscience of the Republican Party鈥� has plans to host a speech by the author of a book that falsely claims that homosexuals largely orchestrated the Holocaust. The Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly, a local chapter of the conservative GOP activist group California Republican Assembly, says it will hear on April 3 from Scott Lively 鈥� a man it boastfully describes as 鈥淭he Pastor Vilified by the Newspapers as a Hater Because of his stand Against the Promotion of Homosexuality.鈥�
Lively, who runs Abiding Truth Ministries, co-authored the notorious book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party and that 鈥渢he Nazi Party was entirely controlled by militaristic male homosexuals throughout its short history.鈥� The book鈥檚 crude thesis, that gay men played instrumental roles in forming the Third Reich and carrying out the Holocaust, has been thoroughly by real historians. (Lively鈥檚 speech to the Murrieta-Temecula group is entitled 鈥淭he Pink Swastika.鈥�) Lively is also co-founder of the anti-gay hate group .
The Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly鈥檚 leader did not return a message left by Hatewatch, but its website, adorned with the words 鈥淕od Bless America,鈥� does note that Lively 鈥渋s called a 鈥楬ater鈥� by the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center.鈥� (The 人兽性交 lists Abiding Truth Ministries as a hate group because of its promotion of clearly false allegations about homosexuals.) CRA President Mike Spence said that local chapters like Murrieta-Temecula operate independently.
March has been a busy month for Lively. Just a few weeks ago, he flew to the Ugandan capital of Kampala for an anti-gay conference, where he that gays and lesbians should be forced into conversion therapy as an 鈥渁lternative鈥� to Uganda鈥檚 current criminal punishment for homosexuality: life in prison. Lively compared the lives of lesbians and gays to those of alcoholics, claiming that 鈥渢o give arrestees the choice of therapy instead of imprisonment [is] similar to the therapy option I chose after being arrested for drunk driving in 1985 (during which time I accepted the Lord and was healed and transformed into a Christian activist).鈥�
For years, Temecula was the home base of Lively鈥檚 Abiding Truth Ministries.聽 But he has recently his operations to Springfield, Mass. He also keeps up a busy speaking schedule in Russia and various former Soviet republics, promoting his book.
