Friends,

The above note was left on my front gate a couple of weeks ago anonymously.  It reflects the attitude of hatred that has been generated against me by the radical left here in my own community.

I also recently received the following death threat in my voicemail late one night:

“Denounce the Uganda Nazi bill or I will hang you and burn you alive, you disgusting Nazi maggot.  You’re a Nazi.  You’re not a human.  You’re a parasitic maggot and if you don’t get the f*** out of this country you will die.”

Here it is in MP3 threattoscott

For my ministry 2012 has been The Year of the Smear.  Click on this link for a two page summary in PDF of the persecution we have endured, complete with photographs.  It is a reminder that those who dare to stand up to the homosexual movement pay a heavy price.  I want also to remind you that I rely entirely upon donations to remain in this most difficult mission field.  As we approach the final days of 2012 please remember my ministry in your year-end giving by making a tax deductible donation at http://www.defendthefamily.com/help/donate.php.  And please forward this message to your pro-family friends.

Blessings in Jesus,

Pastor Scott Lively

This week marks the anniversary of the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.  December 10^th is International Human Rights Day.  Unfortunately, this is a day celebrated mostly by leftists, who have hijacked “human rights” in recent times to serve their own misguided agenda.  However, true human rights as they have been understood through the centuries spring from and epitomize the biblical world view.

Unlike most of the left wing activists exploiting International Human Rights Day as an opportunity to attack Christianity and champion sexual perversion,  I am actually a credentialed human rights attorney with special U.N. sponsored training in Strasbourg. I am also author of the Riga Declaration on Religious Freedom, Family Values and Human Rights which documents that religious freedom and family values have been staunchly protected in 4000 years of written human rights law, but that the “right” of homosexuality is an invention of modern liberalism.

Moreover, this “right to sodomy” actually undermines true human rights, as exemplified by the collapse of the Magna Charta (alternately spelled Magna Carta) in the United Kingdom. The first principle of that venerable human rights document declares that “The English Church shall be free.” This principle, established in the bedrock of British jurisprudence in 1215, stood unshakable for nearly 800 years until the rise of the “gay” movement which has in just the past decade achieved the power to redefine religious liberty as “homophobia” and to crush it under the heels of its pink jackboots.

One of the highlights of my world travels was having the opportunity to see one of the original handwritten copies of the Magna Charta at Salisbury Cathedral in England.  It is one of only three remaining of the original eleven.  That was in 1997 on my way to complete my studies at the University of Strasbourg‘s Institute for International Human  Rights.  On that day the Magna Charta still stood.

Exactly ten years later in 2007, on my way to Warsaw, Poland to speak on human rights at the World Congress of Families IV, I made a brief stop in Dublin, Ireland.  There I met with a Christian street activist who was literally in hiding from the police under threat of arrest for speaking against homosexuality on the public sidewalks in violation of the new Sexual Orientation Regulations (SROs).  The bulwark of the Magna Charta could no longer protect this Christian brother.  After eight centuries it had finally been breached — by militant activists of the “gay” movement.  The news stories coming out of the UK since then paint an increasingly dismal picture for believers.

Today there is only one human rights document still standing as a barrier to the homosexual agenda in the west: the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Indeed, this is the very source of the religious liberty and freedom of speech clauses of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights upon which all modern human rights laws and treaties rest.  (The first half of the Universal Declaration was drafted by the Americans, the latter half by the Soviets in the days following the completion of the Nurenberg war crimes trials of the Nazi leaders by the Allies).

Yet despite the emergence of the Universal Declaration and all of its statutory progeny, no country in the world has been as stalwart in defense of religious liberty and freedom of speech as the United States — because of the First Amendment.   However, even as we celebrate International Human Rights Day, the First Amendment is under siege by the same forces that brought down the Magna Charta.  In recent years it has survived a series of assaults that continue to grow in frequency and severity with no end in sight.

In less than a month, on January 7^th, 2013 I will appear in federal court here in Springfield, Massachusetts with my attorney from Liberty Counsel.  There, he will present our oral argument in support of our Motion to Dismiss the case against me for “Crimes Against Humanity.”   I am being sued by Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) for preaching against homosexuality in that country.  At issue is the strength of the First Amendment to protect my right to preach the Gospel in a foreign country.

In essence, the Plaintiffs contend that the same European embrace of homosexual “human rights” that empowered the SORs of the UK and took down the Magna Charta represents a new international legal norm that must be enforced across the globe.  Thus, even though preaching against homosexuality is protected speech both in Uganda and the United States, I should be held liable for it based on SMUG’s interpretation of “international law.”  Granted, it seems ridiculous, but so did the idea of the SORs before they became law in the UK.

I would like to take the opportunity of this anniversary to call for prayer.  Not so much for myself, but for our nation.  Because a loss to these plaintiffs under these pleadings would mean a breach of  First Amendment in the same manner as the Magna Charta.  If the First Amendment cannot protect my rights of religious liberty and freedom of speech in a foreign country, how much less will they protect all of us here in our own country.  Indeed, haven’t we already begun to see “sexual orientation” trump religious liberty (and to a lesser extent freedom of speech) as a legal trend?  How much worse will it be if the federal courts accept European legal reasoning in their rulings?

My friends, understand the gravity of what I am saying.  If the First Amendment falls to the “gays” like the Magna Charta did,  true human rights will be finished in America (and by extension the rest of the western world).  There is no fall-back position.  The First Amendment is the last bastion of freedom for Christians.  If it fails, serious persecution of all who dare to speak the truth of the Bible will follow close behind.  Pray fervently that it will stand!

Are you reluctant to share the truth of Christ with the people around you even though you know they will end up in hell without Him?

Do you stand by passively when others mock Christianity or blaspheme your Lord and Savior?

Are you afraid to defend the Bible on issues like abortion and homosexuality for fear of being called a bigot or hater?

Do you feel embarrassed or ashamed when a Christian leader suggests publicly that natural disasters or other calamities could be the judgment of God?

Then you may have a condition called Low Spiritual Testosterone, or “Low T.”

As Christian societies age they pass through stages.  They start out like the Church of Philadelphia (Rev 3:7-13), growing in the blessings of security and prosperity that come from worshipping and praising God.  But over time they become complacent, self-serving and ungrateful like the Church of Laodicea (Rev 3:14-22), having “a form of Godliness but denying its power” (2 Timothy 3:5) .

This corrosive environment can rob individual Christian believers of their spiritual testosterone, leaving them feeling weak and powerless; easy prey for bad doctrine or moral compromise (Ephesians 4:11-14).

In extreme cases believers with “Low T” can contract spiritual diseases such as NicerThanJesusitis or the cancerous Emergent Churchanoma.  Increasingly we’re even seeing a susceptibility to the hard-to-treat Gay Theologica Psychosis in which sufferers begin to insist that God wants people to reject the Bible and embrace sexual sin (Isaiah 5:20)

If you suffer from any of these symptoms there is still hope for you.

The remedy is found in the pages of the Bible.

As Jesus told the Laodiceans, “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.  Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.”

Just take these simple steps to restore your spiritual testosterone.

1.  Be Prepared.  “Put on the full armor of God…” Ephesians 6:10-17

2.  Be Purposeful.  “Go ye into all the world and make disciples…” Matthew 28:18-20

3.  Be Bold.  “Let your light shine before men…” Matthew 5:14-16

4.  Be Aggressive against evil.   “The weapons of our warfare are mighty for pulling down strongholds…”   II Corinthians 10:3-6.

5.  Be Uncompromising with sin.  “Break down their altars…”  Deuteronomy 7:5 (spiritually, not physically, per II Cor 10)

6.  Be Courageous.   Fear God, not man.  Matthew 10:26-28.

7.  Be Resolute.   Remain faithful through tribulation to earn your reward.  Revelation 2:9-11.

Taking these steps daily in conjunction with a Healthy Diet of Scripture reading, and Regular Exercise of your faith through evangelism, good works and community activism  is absolutely guaranteed to raise your spiritual testosterone levels.

Don’t let “Low T” rob you of your power and authority in Christ.  Get back to the Bible!

Disclaimer: There is NO Permanent Cure for “Low T.”  Failure to faithfully observe the regime prescribed in Scripture will result in relapse, backsliding, and in some cases spiritual death.  Warning!  Beware of counterfeit remedies marketed under such labels as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc or various generic-label Christian cults.  Severe Warning is given against receiving any marks, patches or implants in the forehead or right hand marketed under the brand names “Beast” or “Image of the Beast.”  These treatments are irreversibly fatal and produce lasting agonizing pain.

The RINOs (Republicans in name only) are up to their usual post-election tricks trying to blame social conservatives for losses they caused themselves.  I suggest that instead of playing defense again, or making yet another run at reviving Christian values within the existing framework, lets just stop playing by the “establishment” rulebook and rethink the whole thing.

First of all lets strip down the GOP to its core principles: biblical values.  This is where it started as an alternative to the pro-slavery Whig and Democrat Parties, and what has defined the appeal of its best leaders, the last of whom was, of course, Ronald Reagan.

Now let’s start selectively adding issues and constituencies back in based on their compatibility with our values.

Of course we want to keep the pro-life and pro-family wing, which thankfully constitutes the overwhelming majority of the GOP grass roots activists.

We also want  to keep the constitutional and limited government factions, and the Tea Parties, since their philosophies are rooted in the Constitution, which is in turn rooted in the Bible (even if some of these allies have forgotten this fact)  One such faction we want to retain is the 2^nd Amendment conservatives, though many of these are secularists who need reeducation as to the true nature of liberty as understood by the founders (to overcome  revisionist, anti-Christian teachings they learned in public schools).

We’re of course going to continue being strongly supportive of small business, since this has always been the engine of our economy, and, at its best, exemplifies the biblical values of personal responsibility, hard work and local investment for the common good.   There is work to do with this constituency in reinforcing those virtues and reducing the influence of the amoral corporate giants but there’s a natural alliance here, grounded in a mutual interest in family-centered community.

This alliance doesn’t necessarily exist with “big” business, meaning especially the large multi-national corporations (though we would welcome business people of all stripes who share our morality).  The culture of that part of the business world is largely antithetical to Christianity, openly embracing “greed” as a positive value, and emphasizing profit over both principles and people.  Indeed, as America has shifted slowly from a Christian to a humanistic consensus, the business practices of the corporate realm have grown increasing corrupt.  Who really trusts “Big Pharma” these days?  Agri-business?  Banks?  And look how easily the majority of them now accommodate and often generously fund the abortion and homosexual agendas.

Yet isn’t this the constituency that actually pulls the strings of the GOP “establishment?”

I personally found it very disturbing that the Romney campaign was heavily funded by billionaire casino owners.  These are men whose vast wealth was (and is) gained by the selfish and callous exploitation of the weaknesses of others.  And their only apparent concern about Obama was the amount of money he  would extract from their bloated bank vaults.  Why again are we protecting these social parasites from paying more taxes?  (Other than to keep it out of the hands of profligate-spending politicians? — but that’s a separate problem).

This leads me to a constituency I think we don’t have but should add: ethnic minorities and the working poor.  Now I’m no socialist, and I recognize that the entitlement system in its current state is one of the most shameful results of Marxist ideology in the Democratic Party, but there is a certain amount of truth in the arguments of the “social justice” crowd.  I live in the inner city as a missionary and I see it first hand.

I say we should start working to rescue the “social justice” movement from the Marxists and rebuild it on a Christian foundation.  We should use our vastly superior skills at managing money, and our philosophy of “teaching how to fish “ (instead of “giving away the fish”) to systematically turn the dependent class into self-sufficient citizens (to the fullest extent possible).  At the same time reducing the costs of the programs and lowering taxes accordingly.  A Christian society has a duty to help the poor, and we can meet that duty much better and cheaper than the Marxists can.

Why will ethnic minorities join us in the first place, before we’ve been able to prove ourselves champions of true social justice?  We will make a simple appeal to the thing we most share in common.  “Our Bond Is Family!”  There’s our  pitch and strategy in bumper-sticker simplicity.  The typical African American or Hispanic person is generally more Christian and pro-family than the average American (as are the Russian, Eastern European, East Indian, African and Asian immigrants).  RINO Republicans could never build a bridge to these minorities because they don’t share these values.  But we can and should.

The illegal immigration issue has unfortunately distracted both conservatives and Hispanics from the interests we hold in common, but from my experience I think most Hispanics who are legal citizens would gravitate naturally to the Republican Party and not the Democrats if our agenda were centered on family rather than fiscal matters (especially if we had our own social justice platform).  Frankly, I’d happily trade any number of pro-abortion, hate-America White liberal suburbanites for the equivalent number of pro-life, pro-family working class Hispanic citizens.   We’d be a much stronger country for it.

We should also invite into our new coalition the majority of Libertarians who hold to a Bible-based libertarianism in the mold of the Founding Fathers.  I call these “Biblitarians” and count myself among them.  Biblitarians embrace the same core values of personal liberty, minimal government regulation and  local control as their secular counterparts but are more trustworthy on the fundamental social issues.  As much as I respect Congressman Ron Paul, one of the most principled men in government, his secularized form of libertarianism allowed him to endorse open sodomy in our military, a grave philosophical flaw.  We should work to recruit even these secularists and to educate them on the Christian roots of their ideology.

We should reach out to moderate and conservative-leaning environmentalists as well.  Environmentalism is another movement we should rescue from the Marxists and rebuild on a Christian foundation.  Our responsibility to be good stewards of the earth is a central tenet of Christianity, and we are certainly much more capable of fulfilling this duty in a balanced manner than the Marxists are.  (Not to mention that we would do the world a great service to steer at least some portion of this powerful movement away from power-grabbing globalist goals such as Agenda 21 and “global warming” and toward authentic environmental needs.)

One key point in this arena that deserves immediate, urgent advocacy is opposition to genetically-modified foods.  RINOs would never take this position for fear of alienating agri-business and mega-corporations like Monsanto, but we conservatives should.

Environmentalists might at first seem to be an impossible constituency to recruit, but Christians share an important common ground with them: an embrace of the natural and rejection of the unnatural.  The most important concepts in environmentalism — bio-diversity, eco-systems, and the inter-dependence of species — rest on the clear “natural law” presupposition (central to Christianity as well) that there is an existing order in nature that should be protected by human beings.  We also share a distrust of the corporate giants whose myopic pursuit of ever greater profits represents the greatest threat to the environment.

If we craft an appeal based on our common preference for  the “natural” over the “artificial,” and frame this as a logical basis for deciding social policy in every area, we suddenly have a powerful unifying theme for our entire slate that could win every intellectually honest environmentalist to our side: the natural value of life vs the unnatural termination of unborn babies, natural marriage vs. un-natural homosexual unions, God-given liberty vs. man-made Statism, commerce among real persons vs. that with artificial corporate “persons,” natural foods vs. genetic experiments, a return to family farms and rejection of agri-business, a return to natural remedies and rejection of Big Pharma, etc..

While we’re plundering the “Progressive” base, lets not forget the labor unions.  There’s nothing inherently evil or unbiblical about labor unions.  The evil comes from the Marxist ideologues and organized crime elements who control them.  Union members were the heart and soul of the so-called “Reagan Democrats” who crossed party lines in droves for Reagan because he sincerely espoused Christian values.  This is a natural constituency for a newly Bible-centered GOP.  The only reason we don’t have them now in any significant numbers is that the corporate giants don’t like them (for obvious reasons) and continually foster hostility against them among the Republican rank and file.

Public employees unions on the other hand pose a separate and larger problem rooted in the inherently corrupt system of allowing public employees to control both sides of the collective bargaining process.  That problem could be solved by establishing an independent taxpayer approval process for all substantive contracts, but my guess is that these union members would be the least likely to accept our invitation (at least until after we had enacted our solution in law).  Yet there are many Christians even among this group who might join our new coalition.

Perhaps the biggest change for the GOP with the adoption of this model would be a shift from “money driven” campaigning to a far greater emphasis on the grassroots.  That would have been a big problem for the old GOP, but this new model seeks to unify the grassroots base of both the Republican and Democrat parties under a re-configured GOP “big tent.”

Surely there would be other issues and constituencies that would align with this approach.  But importantly, adopting this biblically-grounded  model for a reorganized GOP would establish a new coalition of partners who would stand on righteous principles and deny the amoral RINOs and their corrupt big-money backers control of the party once and for all.

Scott Lively is an attorney and pastor based in Springfield Massachusetts who has recently formed a committee to explore the possibility of a run for the governorship of that state.

Hildegard of Bingen, We Need You!

By Dr. Scott Lively    

       As LGBT History Month draws to a close it is ironic that one of the fiercest “homophobes” of all time is being honored this week with the post-humus publication of some of her musical compositions in an album predicted by industry experts to top the charts.  The woman is Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth century Benedictine abbess who was canonized earlier this month by Pope Benedict.  WND linked to the story here: http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/medieval-nuns-800-year-old-chants-top-charts/?cat_orig=faith.  What these music industry experts (and the producer whose best known work is for Madonna and Brittney Spears) probably don’t realize is that Hildegard devoted a substantial portion of her life in the1100’s to vigorously opposing homosexuality.     

      By coincidence I happen to be working on revisions and additions to Chapter Two of my book The Pink Swastika as my co-author Kevin Abrams and I prepare the 5^th edition for publication.  New in the 5^th edition is a section featuring Hildegard’s efforts to stop a homosexual gnostic cult called Manichaeism from infiltrating the Catholic Church.

      Allow me to simply excerpt the relevant text from Chapter Two, titled “Homo-Occultism:”            

 “Arthur Evans’ Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture provides some illumination here. Mani, for whom Manichaeism is named, was a third century Prince of Babylon who devised his own form of Gnosticism. Gnostics blended pagan sex rituals and Mother Goddess worship with elements of New Testament Christianity and “rejected Jehovah God as an evil demon.”^[i] 

“Manichaeism imposed on Gnosticism a caste system of leaders (elect) and followers (hearers). A Manichaean sect called the Bogomils (later called the Cathars) arose in Bulgaria and spread across Europe. Homosexuality became so closely associated with these Bulgarian heretics that the practice became known as “buggery.” Indeed, “the word for Cathar in most European languages came to be the word for homosexual: in German, Ketzer, in Italian, Gazarro, and in French, Herite….Heresy and homosexuality became so interchangeable that those accused of heresy attempted to prove their innocence by claiming heterosexuality” (Evans:51ff).

“Just what did the Cathari believe and preach?  Historian Thomas Merton describes their theology: 

The very core of the Catharist’s spiritual life was a morbid horror of sex and of the flesh….Since the flesh was evil, and bodily life was an almost irreparable disaster, the Cathari naturally concluded that marriage was a device of the devil…[for] encouraging the procreation of children and the imprisonment of more souls in the flesh.  Therefore they taught that no man who persisted in matrimony until death could be saved.  The effects produced by this teaching…[was] an almost total disregard for sexual morality and in the complete disruption of family life…[T]here was no such thing as responsibility for the sins of the flesh: such “sins” were simply the work of the devil.  The flesh was entirely under his power…Man was not free to resist.  Finally [and very significant in light of Adolf Hitler‘s choice to be a “vegan”]…came the asceticism of the so-called “perfect.”  They would not eat meat or eggs or drink milk on the grounds that these things were defiled by animal generation (Merton: p.37-38).^[ii]  [Hitler was strongly influenced by Manichaeism.]    

“In The Nazis and the Occult, author Dusty Sklar reports that Cathari Gnosticism was also a primary root of Nazi anti-Semitism, fostered in Germany by the founder of Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky  Sklar writes:

A famous medieval Gnostic sect, the Cathars, came to identify the Old Testament god Jehovah, with the demiurge [an inferior deity], the creator of the material world, and therefore the equivalent of Satan.  Within Gnosticism, then, exited the idea that the Jewish god was really the devil, responsible for all the evil in the world.  Without intending to arouse hatred against the Jews, H.P.B. repeated the Gnostic thinking in her book The Secret Doctrine”  (p.12).^[iii]

“Sklar adds that the formation of Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society is considered by many the beginning of modern occultism (ibid: p.11).  But as King Solomon wrote, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). 

 “A witness to this from the twelfth century is the legendary German philosopher, writer and composer Hildegard of Bingen, considered a saint by the Catholic church.  Much of her work as a Christian reformer centered on exposing and opposing the influence of the Cathars on the medieval church, which, in addition to converting otherwise normal men into Sodomites, fostered widespread cultural misogyny (hatred and distrust of women) as was also true of occultists in Nazi and pre-Nazi Germany.          

“In a commentary applying the teachings of the Book of Revelation to her own time Hildegard wrote:

[D]iabolical seduction [by the Cathars] gives rise to criminals and seducers, the hate and the crime of the devil, brigands and thieves; but it is in homosexuality that the sin is most impure, the root of all vices. When these sins have accumulated among the nations [she adds prophetically], the constitution of God’s law will be torn, and the Church, like a widow, will be stricken (Pernoud: p.107).^[iv]  (Emphasis ours.)

“Sounding just like a modern Judeo-Christian social activist, Schipperges writes that “Hildegard felt that she had to make public appearances and to take an open stand” to “preach against the Cathar sect” and restore the biblical perspective of sexuality that men and women are created to be “one flesh in loving union” (pp.59, 78).^[v] “

      While the modern homosexual movement differs in many ways from its twelfth century Cathari ancestor, the similarities are striking, as is the simple fact that homosexual activists then and now seem determined to infiltrate and corrupt the Christian church. 

      Oh Hildegard, we could certainly use your boldness in our century!  But somehow I don’t think you’d be lauded by our music industry if you were here.

In commemoration of October, better known as “Gay Pride Month,” (not to be confused with “Gay Pride” month, which is still also sometimes called June), I wrote an editorial entitled “Kids to Drink Gay Kool Aid in October” (which was published at WorldNetDaily) offering a few interesting facts about the history of the “gay” movement that might not be included in the many public school celebrations of this important holiday season.

After publication it occurred to me that some people might not understand the reference to Kool Aid in my title, so as a public service, and in honor to the many “gays” and “lesbians,” such as Harvey Milk, whose contributions to society are being remembered this month, I’d like to offer this short follow-up letter.

According to Wikipedia: “Drinking the Kool-Aid” is a metaphor commonly used in the United States and Canada that refers to a person or group’s unquestioning belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination…. The basis of the term is a reference to the November 1978 Rev. Jim Jones Jonestown Massacre, where members of the Peoples Temple were said to have committed suicide by drinking…Kool-Aid…laced with cyanide.”

Thus the reference to Kool Aid in my editorial regarding what some call “gay propaganda” now being served to children in America’s public schools. Far be it from me to suggest that the homosexual teachers and leftist allies of the Gay Lesbian Straight Teachers Network (GLSEN) would manipulate the minds and emotions of the vulnerable children for their own selfish advantage, but there are a few regressive “homophobic” types who do still make such claims.

My purpose, however, is to serve the cause of academic integrity by filling in a few of the historical facts that have been left out (no doubt inadvertently) by homosexual teachers and school officials. One important fact is about Harvey Milk, considered by many to the “Martin Luther King” of the “gay“ movement. Except, where King was concerned with the “content” of a man’s “character,” Milk was more interested in the contents of his gym shorts, including, very probably those of the Rev. Jim Jones.

We probably shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but in speaking of the dead at all we’re back to the Kool Aid metaphor since it only become an icon in American pop culture slang because Jim Jones used it to facilitate the mass suicide/slaughter of 909 of his blindly loyal followers one fateful November day in 1978 in Guyana.

And, interestingly, back home in San Francisco his very good friend Harvey Milk was murdered just a few days later. Indeed, Jones and Milk were so personally and politically close-knit that it was assumed these incidents were connected. Gay historian Michael Bellefountaine writes:

“Because Milk and Moscone were murdered so soon after the Jonestown tragedy, there was immediate speculation that Peoples Temple was somehow involved. Ann Kronenberg, Milk’s hand- picked successor, told Milk biographer Randy Shilts, that when she first heard Milk was murdered, she thought Jim Jones was responsible. Rumors began to circulate (and some persist today) of obscure connections between Jim Jones and Milk’s murderer, Dan White. Vague rumors of a falling out between Milk and Jones also surfaced. …upon closer inspection, it is clear that Harvey Milk was a strong advocate for Peoples Temple and Jim Jones during his political career, including the tumultuous year leading up to the Jonestown tragedy. Milk spoke at the Temple often, wrote personal letters to Jim Jones, contacted other elected officials on the Temple’s behalf, and used space in his weekly column to support the works of the Temple, even after the negative New West article went to press. Milk appeared in the pages of the Peoples Forum, the Temple newspaper, and received over fifty letters of sympathy from the residents of Jonestown when his lover, Jack Lira, killed himself in September 1978. (See: http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Articles/bellefountaine.htm).

As for Jim Jones and the sexual orientation he shared with Harvey Milk, lets allow one of his former clergy, David Parker Wise, to give us the inside story:

“Not long after the formation of the L.A. church, Jim ran into a serious legal problem. He was arrested in the restroom of a late night movie theater where a lot of gay men hung out. Apparently, he approached an undercover agent with an erect penis in a provocative way. This incident threatened to bring down Peoples Temple, and those who knew about it teamed up to prepare for the possible backlash. While the lawyers worked to get the arrest sealed, Jim became more and more threatened and paranoid, convinced that he would still be exposed. To reduce the fallout, we were told to invite people from a local ‘homosexual church‘, but members of the church did not return after their first visit. Jim still needed some homosexuals. He was determined to make Peoples Temple a more openly homosexual church to stop insiders and outsiders from turning against him in case his own homosexual arrest became public” (See:http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PersonalReflections/reflwise.htm — Warning: Graphic Content).

So there we are. Another good reason to celebrate Gay Pride Month. Let us indeed honor these two “gay” men whose lives and legacies, so closely intertwined in life and death, have profoundly influenced American society. And let us never forget, whenever we use this now ubiquitous metaphor, that the Kool Aid has always been “gay.”

In many elementary and secondary schools across America October will be designated as LGBT History Month .  It is certain to feature prominently in California where promotion of homosexuality to all school children is now mandated by law.  And it is likely to be observed in all of the classrooms controlled by the nation-wide Gay Lesbian Straight Teachers Network (GLSEN), whose founder Kevin Jennings was appointed “Safe Schools Czar” by President Obama.  This week WND linked to a news story about a Broward County Florida school that will teach “gay” history to kindergarteners, but most GLSEN teachers will conduct these indoctrination sessions with no meaningful outside scrutiny. 

LGBT History Month is not yet universally adopted by public schools.  Nevertheless, throughout October tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent school children will be subjected to the most despicable brainwashing ever conducted in American classrooms.  They will be taught, through carefully constructed lesson plans, to view homosexuals as a superior class of human beings whose influence on society has been wholly benign, but whose contributions to society have been limited due to irrational prejudice and bigotry.  They will learn the importance of protecting homosexuals from societal “homophobia,” perhaps even emanating from their own parents, and that homosexuality is a perfectly normal and healthy (and unchangeable) form of sexual identity.  In other words, they will be indoctrinated in provably false and thoroughly biased pro-“gay” propaganda. 

In the interest of  balance, I’d like to offer a few facts that are not likely to make it into the curriculum. 

Let’s start at the very beginnings of the modern homosexual movement to highlight its very earliest pioneer.  And for our source lets avoid even the slightest hint of anti-homosexual bias and turn to the pre-eminent scholarly journal of the LGBT community,  the Journal of Homosexuality, and one of its most respect contributors, Gert Heckma PhD, of the Gay Studies department of the University of Amsterdam.  In his 1989 article, titled “Sodomites, Platonic Lovers, Contrary Lovers: The Backgrounds of the Modern Homosexual” (Vol. 16, No 1. 1989) Heckma writes:

“The most important exception to the philosophes’ ambivalent politics of the body was D.A.F. Marquis de Sade, who based his political philosophy precisely on sodomy…Sade used sodomy as a particularly good example of what seemed to be unnatural, unreasonable and purposeless, but which could in no way be proven to be against nature or reason.  Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir (1795) was a clear apology for the decriminalization of pederasty [man/boy sex] and sodomy…Sade emphasized that there were no rational arguments against any form of social behavior, be it prostitution, lust murder, or sodomy, and he strongly opposed the suggestion that theft, prostitution, sodomy or lust murder were against nature….

“In 1772, Sade was sentenced to death for sodomizing his manservant and for poisoning prostitutes…Nothing is known about his homosexual proclivities except for the sodomy of his manservant and his writings.  But his most  scrupulous biographer, Gilbert Lely, has asserted that he was a homosexual with no remorse….It was against…family politics…and the church and its institutions that Sade rebelled — albeit without much success — thus beginning a political struggle for the rights of pederasts.”   

But that was long ago and far away.  What about the modern homosexual movement here in America?  Let us turn to another unimpeachably pro-”gay” source, the book Gay American History (1976) by Jonathan Katz, winner in 2003 of the Brudner Prize of Yale University, celebrating his “lifetime accomplishment and scholarly contributions in the field of lesbian and gay studies.”  From this source we learn that the very first “gay rights” organization in the United States was the American chapter of the German-based Society for Human Rights (SHR), formed in Chicago by a man named Henry Gerber on December 10, 1924 (p.388).  

Gerber had served with the U.S. occupation forces in Germany from 1920 to 1923 and had been involved with the German SHR. Gerber legally chartered the group without revealing its purpose and began publishing a pro-homosexual journal called Friendship and Freedom (p.389), patterned after the German chapter’s publication of the same name (p.632n.).  In 1925, however, the organization collapsed when Gerber, Vice President Al Menninger and another member were arrested on charges of sexual abuse of a boy, all three having been turned in by Menninger’s wife. The Chicago Examiner ran a story titled “Strange Sex Cult Exposed,” and spoke of “strange doings” in Menninger’s apartment (p.390-392).

Another inconvenient fact unlikely to be cited by GLSEN brainwashers is that the German SHR, the world‘s first organization to define homosexuality as a struggle for “human rights,” was formed in 1919 by Nazi-aligned German nationalists (shortly before the formation of the Nazi Party), and that it’s most prominent member was Ernst Roehm, later to become supreme leader of the dreaded Nazi SA or Storm Troopers. Roehm was also, incidentally, a pederast, meaning that like Gerber he was an adult homosexual male who seduced teenaged boys. 

This  pederastic theme at the core of the “gay” movement did not end with Gerber.  His eventual successor, Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society in 1950 was an outspoken defender of NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association. 

Hay’s Mattachine Society was the first openly homosexual organization to survive, and Hay himself is rightly remembered today as the “Founder of the Modern Gay Movement.”  In The Trouble With Harry Hay, sympathetic biographer Stuart Timmons wrote that when NAMBLA was denied a role in the 1986 Los Angeles “Gay Pride Parade,” marcher Harry Hay donned a sweatshirt printed with the legend, “NAMBLA Walks With Me.” Timmons writes that Hay, “could not contain his outrage” that NAMBLA was excluded (p.296).

Hay was a featured speaker at NAMBLA’s annual membership conference, June 24-25, 1994: “[He] gave an inspiring talk about reclaiming for the 1990’s the spirit of homoerotic sharing and love from various ancient Greek traditions of pederasty. A remarkably balanced and sensitive account of the conference appeared in the August 23 Advocate from a writer who was invited to attend (NAMBLA Bulletin, September, 1994:3).

NAMBLA was in turn founded by leading “gay” activists including David Thorstad (who also founded the Gay Activist Alliance) and  Thomas Reeves who wrote this choice tidbit about another icon of “gay” history, the Stonewall Riot. 

 “Almost every one of the early openly homosexual writers was a pederast. Pederasty was a constant theme of early gay literature, art, and pornography. The Stonewall riots were precipitated by an incident involving an underage drag queen, yet that detail was not viewed as significant.  Curtis Price, a fourteen-year-old, self-described “radical hustler,” formed the first gay liberation organization in Baltimore. Many of the leaders of early gay liberation and the founders of the major gay groups in the U.S. were boy-lovers (Reeves in Pascal, Marc (ed), Varieties of Man Boy Love :47).”

Incidentally, Harry Hay was Obama “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings’s inspiration for founding GLSEN which might explain why Jennings himself had ties to NAMBLA and actively condoned pederasty: see http://www.examiner.com/article/kevin-jennings-is-he-any-less-dangerous-than-jerry-sandusky

I could go on and on but it only gets worse. The point is that the “gay rights” movement is not benign.  Its history is a poisoned stream whose head waters begin in the swamp of Sadean perversion and whose direction was set by the same people who created the Nazi Party.  In America its course has run mostly through underground sewers until the past few decades when control of the movement fell into the hands of modern marketing experts who have hidden the truth under a white-washed facade of their own shrewd design.  And it is this sugar-sweetened poison that is about to be spoon-fed to America’s public school students.  It is a “gay” Koolaid of dangerous lies and it is to our great shame that this once Christian nation will allow these innocent children to consume it with hardly a whimper of protest by the public.

King Josiah Destroying the Idols of Baal. Gustave Dore

Announcing the formation of

The KING JOSIAH PROJECT
 of Abiding Truth Ministries

Breaking Down the High Places: II Kings 23 and II Corinthians 10

Deut 5:7 “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME!!”

Deut 7:5  “This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God…”

2 Kings 23  “Then [after many generations of disobedience to God] King Josiah went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.  THE KING STOOD BY THE PILLAR AND MADE A COVENANT BEFORE THE LORD, TO WALK AFTER THE LORD, AND TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HIS TESTIMONIES AND HIS STATUTES WITH ALL HIS HEART AND ALL HIS SOUL, TO CARRY OUT THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT THAT WERE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK. And all the people entered into the covenant.

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest…to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven. He brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

HE ALSO BROKE DOWN THE HOUSES OF THE SODOMITES WHICH WERE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah. Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba…

HE ALSO DEFILED TOPHETH, WHICH IS IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, THAT NO MAN MIGHT MAKE HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER PASS THROUGH THE FIRE FOR MOLECH. He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD…and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. The altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down; and he smashed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

THE HIGH PLACES WHICH WERE BEFORE JERUSALEM, WHICH WERE ON THE RIGHT OF THE MOUNT OF DESTRUCTION WHICH SOLOMON THE KING OF ISRAEL HAD BUILT FOR ASHTORETH THE ABOMINATION OF THE SIDONIANS, AND FOR CHEMOSH THE ABOMINATION OF MOAB, AND FOR MILCOM THE ABOMINATION OF THE SONS OF AMMON, THE KING DEFILED. HE BROKE IN PIECES THE SACRED PILLARS AND CUT DOWN THE ASHERIM AND FILLED THEIR PLACES WITH HUMAN BONES.   Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down. Then he demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah….Josiah also removed all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made provoking the LORD; and he did to them just as he had done in Bethel….

MOREOVER, JOSIAH REMOVED THE MEDIUMS AND THE SPIRITISTS AND THE TERAPHIM AND THE IDOLS AND ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT WERE SEEN IN THE LAND OF JUDAH AND IN JERUSALEM, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

BEFORE JOSHIA THERE WAS NO KING LIKE HIM WHO TURNED TO THE LORD WITH ALL HIS HEART AND WITH ALL HIS SOUL AND WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW OF MOSES; NOR DID ANY LIKE HIM ARISE AFTER HIM.”  II Kings 23

Josiah was the most righteous of all the Hebrew Kings because he did not compromise with the world.  He honored the command that there be no other gods accommodated among the people of God and he took action to eliminate idolatry from the land.

In the New Testament we were given the same command but advised that in Christ our weapons to achieve His requirement are spiritual, not physical:

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete” (II Corinthians 10:3-6).

There is nothing new under the sun.  Just as in Josiah’s time our government officials today embrace false gods and promote through religious pluralism the blasphemy that pagan deities are equal with God, the “sodomites” have brought the worship of sexual perversion into the very house of God, and human babies are being sacrificed to the modern Molech of abortion.

The Josiah Project is dedicated to breaking down the high places, idols and altars in American culture through the clear articulation of Jesus Christ as the only Savior and His Word, the Bible, as the only standard of truth.  It is a radical vision to restore to America through revival it’s identity as the City on a Hill, established to advance the Kingdom of God.  And to cast down through apologetics and doctrine the panoply of false gods and heretical teachers who have set themselves up in our culture as rivals to the only King of Kings. We have set for ourselves the humanly impossible goal of restoring to our government an unequivocal acknowledgment of the Bible as the law above our law and the foundation beneath our constitution, knowing that with God, all things are possible.

We will preach the Masculine Christianity that empowered the Apostles in the early church and our Founding Fathers in the early days of our nation, and which emboldened all of the missionary movements of Christian history. (http://www.scottlively.net/2012/09/09/masculine-Christianity/)

We will state the plain truth without concern for its political implications and trust God for the results.

WE WILL TAKE DIRECT NON-VIOLENT ACTION AGAINST THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS OF DARKNESS AND EVIL IN OUR SOCIETY WITHOUT COMPROMISE OR TIMIDITY.

We will not be swayed from our mission by either the insults of our “enemies” or the fear-driven counsel of our “allies.”

This is the King Josiah Project.  May God empower us to accomplish spiritually in America what Josiah accomplished physically in Judea and Israel.

Announcing the first official action of the King Josiah Project:

The Reading of a Spiritual Indictment of President Barack Obama for his Open Embrace of Homosexuality in the Official Policy of His Administration.

September 15, 2012 at Lafayette Park, across from the White House, Washington DC, 10AM to Noon.

I will be among a diverse group of pastors and Christian activists from around the nation who will be gathering to Pray, Protest and Preach against the homosexual agenda of this administration.  My part in this event will be the reading of the indictment.

This indictment is NOT a political statement.  I do not support any of the candidates who are running for president.  This is NOT a call to violence of any sort.  I thoroughly repudiate any such actions or incitements to such actions.  This is purely a SPIRITUAL WITNESS against the choice of our president to reject God’s truth, and a VINDICATION of God for bringing judgment upon America.

You are invited and encouraged to attend, and also to donate in support of the King Josiah Project at http://www.defendthefamily.com/help/donate.php.  Unless otherwise designated, all online donations in September will be dedicated to this project.

Email me at sdllaw@gmail.com for more information.

In Jesus,

Pastor Scott Lively

Long ago in my early days of Christian activism when I was working with my friend and then mentor Pastor Lon Mabon of Oregon Citizens Alliance we often talked about how things just did not seem to be getting any better in Oregon despite our efforts (yet we accomplished much!).  He used to repeat the old English proverb “It’s a long worm that doesn’t turn,” meaning every successful movement (in this case the homosexual movement) will eventually have a reversal of fortune.

Well, it has been a very long worm indeed that has not wavered the slightest bit off its course these many years, but I think the “gay” worm may finally be starting to turn.  It began to turn on the day Chick Fil A Chief Operating Officer Dan Cathy refused, in the face of a firestorm of criticism, to back down from his statement “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’”  Instead, when pressed to the wall he replied without apology “Guilty as charged.“  Finally a high profile Christian had stood his ground — and the crowd went wild.  Then on August 1^st, Mike Huckabee’s Chick Fil A appreciation day gave all of America the chance to unite behind Mr. Cathy’s simple but bold stand. It was a staggering success.

Panic swept across the “gay” movement.  They realized with the terror of a thief caught in the very act that their attempt to crucify Dan Cathy constituted a serious over-reach.  When their puppet mayors of Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia — in the full glare of the national media spotlight — pledged to deny Chick Fil A the right to do business in those cities, America collectively witnessed “gay fascism” for the first time.  And they didn’t like it.  The sleeping giant was aroused.  The frog suddenly felt the heat and jumped out of the pot.  The cow got out of the barn.  And then all of them together went to Chick Fil A for lunch to express their moral outrage.

But the story didn’t end there.  In the deep primal recesses of the tiny liberalism-shriveled brain of Floyd Lee Corkins, the panic turned to anger and then to rage.  This homosexualist foot-soldier, slaving feverishly for the homosexual cause at Washington D.C.’s GLBT community center, decided he would take revenge for the humiliation of his movement at the hands of the “homophobic” Christians.  So he bought a gun and many bullets, and a bag of Chick Fil A sandwiches, and with mass murder in his heart, embarked on his own personal Jihad against the nearby Family Research Council.  By God’s providence only one man was wounded in the attack.  (We pray for that man and for the misguided Mr. Corkins.)

Floyd failed in his mission, but FRC’s Tony Perkins did not fail is his.  Perkins correctly pointed the finger of blame at the Southern Poverty Law Center, probably the most dangerous homosexualist organ in the nation because of its power (as the perceived “independent arbiter” of hate groups by law enforcement and media) to defame and marginalize any individuals or organizations which oppose the “gay” agenda.  The SPLC simply labels us “hate groups” and viola that becomes the tag line for every subsequent news story in the mainstream media, and perhaps even “probable cause” for local or federal criminal investigators.

Now, suddenly, the SPLC’s fascist tactics are also finally in the spotlight, and they’re not at all happy either.  How, after this, can these left-wing radicals get away with posing as “neutral” observers.  It will be impossible!!  Also, the groups and individuals who have been victimized by SPLC are now cooperating together to pressure Fox News to stop using SPLC and its co-conspirators as pundits.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/c872m3j to join that effort.

Several weeks ago the Lord gave me a prompting that I now recognize as advance notice of the worm’s turn.  He inspired me to go to Springfield, MO to raise a ruckus about the sexual orientation anti-discrimination ordinance the city council was planning.  I call these “Gay Fascism Bills.”  A sexual orientation anti-discrimination bill is the seed that contains the tree of the entire homosexual agenda with all of its poisonous fruit.  I know from long experience that the “gays” never forward these bills without first having the votes locked in.  The public comment period is all for show, meaning opposition is generally futile.

Nevertheless, for the first time in years (in the US) I jumped into the fray, using my own notoriety and negative press (in large part generated by the SPLC) like a judo move to create a controversy about the bill in that Christian conservative city.  It worked in spades.  And in the weeks since I came home the public outcry against it, stoked by my good friend Pastor Mark Kiser, has risen steadily.  I learned this week that the City Council has now tabled that bill!!  This is a huge victory — and a turning point in the culture war.  Because, while we have had victories on holding back “gay marriage” which is our strongest and their weakest issue (what I call “fire-break” votes), we have not in a very long time had a victory on “discrimination” which is our weakest and their strongest issue (especially when the vote is in the hands of elected officials).  Now we know that when the leftists attempt to push a “gay fascism” bill in politically conservative areas our response must be to create controversy to draw public attention to the bill so that the people wake up and realize there’s a problem.  Throw out the old playbook of acting nice and trying to persuade the public officials through reason.  They think they are smarter than you all anyhow and have already made up their minds.  They need to see angry crowds with tar and feathers coming to run them out of office!  Indeed, the Mayor of Springfield MO complained to the media that he was extremely bothered by threats of recall by the citizens.

If you find out there’s a “gay fascism bill” coming to your conservative town and need help exposing it to the public, just give me a call (sdllaw@gmail.com) and I’ll come to help.  Invite me to give a speech on my book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party (http://www.scottlively.net/tps/tps1.pdf) or address The Global Threat of Homosexuality (http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/scott_lively/speech_011512.html) – or to give a give a sermon or lecture on ANY aspect of the homosexual issue (http://www.defendthefamily.com/rtr/).  When they hear I’m coming to town every left-wing fanatic for miles around will start wailing and gnashing their teeth and normal people will start popping their heads up to see what‘s going on.  Once that snowball of public controversy starts down the hill it takes very little effort to keep it rolling till it smashes right through the doors of city hall like an avalanche.

Friends, I believe the worm has begun to turn and the backlash against the fascistic “gay” agenda has finally started.  As Christians we need to steward this process and keep it civil and positive.  Our goal is not merely to stop their agenda, it is to advance our own: a genuinely family-friendly society grounded in healthy Biblical values. To that end, it is time for our side to begin showing the contrast in clear unequivocal terms.  We need to expose every aspect of the homosexual lifestyle and agenda to public scrutiny and at the same time remind everyone that God’s plan for sex and marriage produces as much good and health as “sexual freedom” produces harm and disease.

I think this week’s vindication by the University of Texas at Austin of the Mark Regnerus’ study exposing the dangers of “gay” parenting is both another sign of the worm’s turn and a tool for every pro-family advocate to use. http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/08/29/regnerus_scientific_misconduct_inquiry_completed/

Likewise, the choice of the Center for Marriage Policy http://marriagepolicy.org/ to come against “gay marriage” on the grounds of public health, talking again about the diseases associated with homosexual conduct, is a very smart move.  They have declared September Protect Marriage Month and are circulating a flyer detailing the many health risks of homosexuality.  We need to bring back public discussion of AIDS as a “gay” disease, pederasty as major subculture of male homosexuality, mental health problems and domestic violence as major problems associated with lesbianism, the recruitment of children into a homosexual identity through experimentation with “gay” sex, etc.. All the truths we stopped telling because they screamed so loudly about them.

Now is the time to step out from the behind the defensive bulwark of “traditional marriage” in which our only argument is that “marriage is between a man and a woman.”  It is time to start taking back some of the ground we have ceded to the other side in the face of their overwhelming public relations superiority.  Their marketing strategy to cast homosexuality as benign and even socially beneficial has finally hit the brick wall of reality.  The phony facade is beginning to crack and crumble like an eggshell does when a baby chick is ready to be born.

I admit that in the past few years I have been more pessimistic than most about our prospects for rolling back the “gay” agenda.  And I am not so naïve to think these few hopeful signs mean that we will eventually win the culture war.  This may be temporary, perhaps even the first step in the End Times Revival some of us believe will occur (which revival in my view must necessarily involve this most central moral issue of our age).  However, I believe that at least in the short term the tide of battle is turning, and that looking back from some point in the future we will identify Chick Fil A Appreciation Day, or perhaps more accurately the day Dan Cathy refused to bend the knee to political correctness, as the turning point.

A PDF of this document may be found here:  Exposing the SPLC Resource Links

What Every American Should Know About the
Southern Poverty Law Center: Resource Links

FRC’s Perkins: Southern Poverty Law Center Gave Gunman ‘License to Shoot’

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/perkins-shooting-family-research/2012/08/16/id/448862
More on Newsmax re SPLC. http://www.newsmax.com/search?cx=011533900540746215761%3A-adksucby_s&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sitesearch=&q=SPLC&sa=Search&safe=active

An Open Letter to SPLC Spokesman Mark Potok by Dr. Michael Brown

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/34007-an-open-letter-to-splc-spokesman-mark-potok

Resources from Pastor Scott Lively

Hey SPLC, Take Me OFF Your Hate, I Mean Hit List! http://www.scottlively.net/2012/08/22/hey-splc-take-me-off-your-hate-i-mean-hit-list/

My Letters to SPLC — 2007-2008 http://www.scottlively.net/2012/08/19/my-letters-to-splc-2007-2008/

http://exposethesplc.blogspot.com/

SPLC Sides With Moslems Against Jews

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/southern-poverty-law-center-joining-pro-hamas-hezbollah-groups-in-blasting-haters-mostly-jews/2012/08/16/

BARBER: SPLC: The wolf who cried ‘hate’

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/26/splc-the-wolf-who-cried-hate/?page=all

Resources from IFI

http://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/what-is-wrong-with-the-southern-poverty-law-center/

The Morality Police at the SPLC

http://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/the-morality-police-at-the-southern-poverty-law-center/

When Will the Southern Poverty Law Center Stop Bullying

http://illinoisfamily.org/faith/when-will-the-southern-poverty-law-center-stop-bullying/

The Southern Poverty Law Center Infiltrates Public Education

http://illinoisfamily.org/education/the-southern-poverty-law-center-infiltrates-public-education/

IFI Labeled Hate Group http://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/ifi-labeled-hate-group/

The Social Contract Journal–Spring 2010 (multiple articles, including “The Church of Morris Dees” which first appeared in Harper’s)

http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_3/index.shtml

American Thinker article

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/southern_poverty_law_centers_lucrative_hate_group_label.html

A Twisted Definition of Hate by Matthew Vadum

http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1185995987.pdf

The Church of Morris Dees – How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance

http://www.americanpatrol.com/SPLC/ChurchofMorrisDees001100.html
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2000/11/0068709

Morris Dees — Child Molester, Pervert, and Liar?
http://www.zianet.com/web/dees1.htm Research Help Wanted: Can anyone confirm the validity of this document?

Victim of Smear Campaign Gets Even With Morris Dees

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/even_with_morris_dees.html

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Hate-Mongers

http://www.cfnews.org/SPLC.htm

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Expands their the ‘Poverty Palace’ corporate headquarters

http://www.theamericanresistance.com/thousand_words/pics_splc_expands.html

SPLC Revenues and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending October 31, 2007, GuideStar
http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgivews&ein=63-0598743

Southern Poverty Law Center is Poor On Facts and Substance Traditional Values Coalition
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3279

Profiling and Criminalizing Political Dissent

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/2554-profiling-and-criminalizing-political-dissent

Additional New American coverage of SPLC:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/search?q=SPLC

De-funder of the Left By Matthew Vadum

American Spectator http://spectator.org/archives/2009/01/05/de-funder-of-the-left/

Illinois Family Institute Says It is Not a Hate Group By Illinois Family Institute
http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-illinois-family-institute-says-it-is-not-a-hate-group

Leftist group advising Homeland Security ops

http://www.wnd.com/2010/10/213269/

Additional WND coverage of SPLC: http://www.wnd.com/?s=SPLC

Dana Milbank: Hateful speech on hate groups

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html

The Rise of Militant Christophobia. Michael J. Matt, Editor, The Remnant
http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/archive-2007-0215-rise_of_militant_christophob.htm

Southern Poverty Law Center Identified as “HATE GROUP”
Mass Resistance
http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2008/03/massresistance-blog-has-identified.html

News with Views has published many articles critical of the SPLC. See http://www.google.com/search?q=splc&btnG=Search&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswithviews.com&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswithviews.com.

Infowars.com has also published many articles. See https://s5-us4.startpage.com/do/search?cmd=process_search&pid=b4fb2deb722eb8673866404cf05c1533.

The website that Family Research Council put up after receiving the SPLC “hate group” designation in 2010 is at: http://www.startdebatingstophating.com/

People can sign a petition expressing agreement with the following:

“We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with Family Research Council, American Family Association, Concerned Women of America, National Organization for Marriage, Liberty Counsel and other pro-family organizations that are working to protect and promote natural marriage and family. We support the vigorous but responsible exercise of the First Amendment rights of free speech and religious liberty that are the birthright of all Americans.”

SPLC Continues Scamming the Media and Public with Phony Claims

http://immigrationreform.com/2011/08/17/splc-continues-scamming-the-media-and-public-with-phony-claims/

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003203.html

The Southern Poverty Law Center Manipulates Crime Data and Terminology in Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop the Immigration Debate, Asserts the Federation for American Immigration Reform

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-southern-poverty-law-center-manipulates-crime-data-and-terminology-in-last-ditch-attempt-to-stop-the-immigration-debate-asserts-the-federation-for-american-immigration-reform-56862887.html

Does a woman’s body have a defense mechanism to block impregnation when the attacker is a “legitimate” rapist, meaning in the traditional sense a violent surprise attacker as opposed to, say, the more modern feminist sense of a chosen romantic partner that just won’t accept “no” from the woman when she decides during heavy petting that she doesn’t want to copulate after all? I don’t know, but I’ve heard that is true and it seems to be a reasonable question to ask in a public policy discussion about abortion. It’s pretty clear to me that’s what Akin meant. Is every liberal analyst just such a moron that none of them get this? Or or is this just another example of dishonest “gotcha” politics in which neither truth nor justice matters? I think we all know it is the latter, which indicates that the unified false outrage of both Democrats and RINOs is a far bigger problem for our country than who gets elected to this position.

This is not to say, of course, that the feminist definition of rape is invalid, but when we’re talking about the rape exception to abortion the implication is always the former, not the latter definition of rape.  And, of course, the better answer to the question is that a baby should never be punished for the sins of the father, no matter which type of rapist he may be. 

Parts 1 and 2

Hey SPLC, Take Me OFF Your Hate, I Mean Hit List!

This is an open letter to the Southern Poverty Law Center demanding that you CEASE and DESIST labeling me as a “hater,” and viciously lying about me on your website and through your other communications to third parties.

Ever since you put me on your hate list I have been under rhetorical attack from every leftist nut job and “progressive” journalist in America. In 2011 that campaign escalated to terroristic threats backed by vandalism when incensed leftists tried to stop my appearance at Christian Liberty Academy near Chicago to receive the 2011 Truth Teller Award from Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. The night before my speech about the biblical view of homosexuality they smashed out a glass door with a chunk of pavement emblazoned with the demand “SHUT DOWN LIVELY” and then posted a warning on the Internet (ala Al Queda) of more violence to come if the church refused to comply. The local Arlington Heights police department, no doubt influenced by your nationwide “educational” efforts encouraging law enforcement to define only conservatives as “hate groups,” refused to define this attack as a “hate crime.” (See http://americansfortruth.com/2011/10/15/breaking-brick-throwing-vandals-attack-aftah-banquet-host-christian-liberty-academy/)

In 2012 your Communist fellow-travelers at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a ridiculously frivolous federal lawsuit against me for “Crimes Against Humanity,” as if I were Adolf Hitler, claiming that my preaching against homosexuality in Uganda led to the murder of Ugandan “gay” leader David Kato. Prominent in the Complaint is your “certification” of me as a hate group and a repetition of the charge you leveled against me in your Summer 2011 “Intelligence Report” Issue # 142 under the title “Murder of Ugandan Again Focuses Spotlight on U.S. Gay-Bashers — Temporarily” stating:

“David Kato Kisule, the leading gay-rights activist in what may be the world’s most virulently anti-gay nation, Uganda, was beaten to death with a hammer in his home outside Kampala on Jan. 26. The murder happened just three months after a local magazine, Rolling Stone, published the names of 100 “homos” under the banner “Hang Them!” — with Kato’s photo prominently displayed on the front page. Scornful attention immediately turned to the contingent of American anti-gay religious crusaders led by Scott Lively, who made a widely criticized visit to Uganda in March 2009 to stir up support for a proposed law that would impose the death penalty or life in prison for certain homosexual acts.”

You published these lies (and CCR submitted them to a federal judge) with full knowledge that the actual killer of David Kato was not some enraged “homophobe” but a male prostitute whom Kato had bailed out of jail to be his live-in lover and houseboy. He confessed to bashing in Kato’s skull with a hammer after Kato refused to pay him for his perverted “services” and is now serving 30 years in a Ugandan prison. (See http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihVH6Ahnbnhdo3CqrEDT3mCBknKg?docId=CNG.9057dbf4f3db02f92ea39216b26eb623.8a1 and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/sidney-nsubuga-enoch-david-kato-killer-sentenced-_n_1086379.html)

You also knew that in my address to the Ugandan Parliament I advocated not punishment for homosexuals, and certainly not the death penalty, but voluntary therapy and prevention through healthy marriage and family preparation in the national school system. (See http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/archives.php?id=2345952 and http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/newsarchives.php?id=3261726).

What is the real purpose of your shameless dishonesty about me and others on your “hate“ list? It is to provoke hostility and violence against people of Biblical faith to intimidate us into silence about the homosexual political agenda (while at the same time generating huge revenue for yourselves from the thousands who have fallen sway to your cynical fear-mongering). Now we have seen your efforts come nearly to full fruition in the attempted mass murder of the staff of the Family Research Council. Thank God an alert security officer was able to stop your Frankenstein monster from completing his mission.

I warned you that something like this would happen in a letter I sent to you on November 1, 2007:

“When a respected organization such as yours ventures into the business of evaluating the behavior and motives of others (called ‘judging’ when Christians do it), the organization bears a special responsibility to be accurate and fair-minded. An erroneous representation of a person or a group as ‘hateful’ can destroy a reputation and cause great harm. Indeed, given the current extreme Left/Right polarization of our society, identifying someone as ‘hateful,’ in the manner in which your organization uses the term, exposes that person to potential violence at the hands of people who perceive themselves, or other members of their group, as potential victims of his or her ‘hate.’ Such people, relying on your characterization, may feel justified in striking preemptively against the ‘hater.’

I believe this is similar to the logic that you use in suggesting that public disapproval of homosexuality leads to violence against homosexuals. However, Christian disapproval, if it is legitimately rooted in the teachings of Jesus, forbids violence and in fact requires Christians to ‘love their enemies.’ This is a doctrine I cite continually, though I have never seen the corollary on the Left.”

I repeated my admonition and added a request to be removed from your ’hate’ list in a letter I sent to you a year later on October 18. 2008:

“With inflammatory ‘hate crime’ rhetoric and legislation advancing across the nation, and your organization being perceived by many to be the leading ‘independent’ source of information about so-called anti-‘gay’ hate groups, your refusal to remove my organization from your list of these groups is exposing my organization and me personally to increasing harm. So far, to my knowledge, we have suffered only damage to our reputations. I want to be removed from this list before we suffer something more serious” (See My Letters to SPLC at www.scottlively.net).

Of course you not only did not remove me from your list but escalated your attacks against me. These attacks go back to at least 2005 when you made the false accusation that my book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party (co-authored with Orthodox Jewish researcher Kevin Abrams) “claims gays weren’t victimized in the Holocaust, but instead helped mastermind the extermination of Jews.” This is just another outrageous lie. As you well know, Chapter 5 of The Pink Swastika is titled “The Persecution of Homosexuals” and expounds on the theme (as stated in paragraph two) that “many homosexuals were persecuted and some did die in Nazi work camps.” And you will recall that in response to my letter of November 1, 2007 you agreed to retract the lie that The Pink Swastika blames the Holocaust on homosexuals after I pointed out our statement in the book that “we cannot say that homosexuals caused the Holocaust.” Apparently you lied about the retraction as well, which I learned only today in searching your website.

In that same 2005 attack you also cite support for The Pink Swastika as a reason why FRC is on your hit list: “Repudiated by credible historians, the book is nevertheless praised by the Family Research Council and sold by several anti-gay organizations.”

(As to the “credibility” issue I will remind you that I have held out a standing offer for 17 years to formally debate any qualified critic of The Pink Swastika in any neutral public venue at any time — with nary a single taker from your side). (See http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/).

Until the attack on FRC I had always operated under the belief that the “bark” of homosexualist activists was worse than their “bite.” Since the success of their movement depends upon a unified public relations strategy which obscures their true agenda and practices, they seemed acutely aware of the public relations disaster they would face if their people started crossing the line from intimidation and dirty tricks into physical violence. Now, however, it seems that increasingly paranoid rhetoric from your organization, and those which follow your lead, have created a monster that has now crossed that line. And your response of justifying yourself instead of softening your tone makes it likely that there will be more of these monsters in the future.

Fortunately for Tony Perkins and his staff at FRC they have a big budget and ability to hire more security for protection. But what about people like me? Not only have you painted a bigger target on my back than on FRC’s, but I have a very small budget and no way to protect myself from any crazy person inspired to harm me because of your dangerous calumny against me.

Am I exaggerating the threat? Following is a recent email I received from one of your ideological allies. Someone identifying himself as “Michael livelykiller@yahoo.com via …Jun 20 to me.,“ using the subject line “your approaching death,” said

“Your time is coming soon,you filthy facsist sh*t.First we will f*ck you with a broomstick until you begin to hemmorrhage.” [*editing mine.]

I have received hundreds of similar messages. While most do not go so far as to threaten murder, they sometimes do cite your organization as authority for the writer’s condemnation of me as a person. Importantly, your highly personalized attacks deliberately pointing to me as a target of anger and hatred can not in any way be compared to my own comments about homosexuality as a form of behavior, or about the homosexual movement as a political institution.

But that’s because you are following your Communist mentor Saul Alinsky who taught you all in Rules for Radicals to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”

You have indeed acted in a cruel, reprehensible and terribly irresponsible manner in lumping me and other Bible-believing Christians with Nazis and KKKers. And of course it is now becoming obvious to all fair-minded observers that you did it in large part to open a new income stream for your perpetual fundraising campaigns. But we Christians are not like Nazis, either in our beliefs nor in the sense of being a tiny irrational fringe that fears scrutiny. We are still the majority in this country, or at least its most sizable plurality. We also have the courage of our convictions and a long, long history of standing up to bullies like yourselves at any cost.

You will not intimidate me into silence. You cannot sue me into retreat from biblical truth. You cannot make me go into hiding by sending — directly or indirectly — armed killers against my allies or myself. I am not afraid to die for the cause of Christ. But neither, given what has occurred against FRC this week, am I going to volunteer for martyrdom by continuing to be passive in the face of your aggressive and inflammatory defamation.

Therefore, given all of these facts, I must repeat my request to be removed from your list of hate groups, and indeed, for the safety of myself and my family I must now insist that you do this immediately.

Pastor Scott Lively

Part 2, Hey SPLC, Part II

By Pastor Scott Lively

Lets just get right down to brass tacks about the Southern Poverty Law Center and its campaign against social conservatives. And I’m going to gently correct a few Christian commentators here in the process. The problem with SPLC’s hateful rhetoric about FRC, myself, American Family Association, etc, etc, is NOT that its rhetoric is inflammatory. As SPLC correctly points out in its defense to FRC’s accusation, condemnatory language is often appropriate, as in their example of rebuking Neo-Nazis who declare Jews to be “vermin.” No, the problem with the SPLC is they are shameless and self-serving LIARS!! They are liars whose deliberate false witness against Christian (and now Jewish*) conservatives takes the FORM of inflammatory rhetoric. 

 * http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/southern-poverty-law-center-joining-pro-hamas-hezbollah-groups-in-blasting-haters-mostly-jews/2012/08/16/

If I, for example, were the monster that SPLC has portrayed me to be in its numerous attacks, (e.g. masterminding death penalty legislation for homosexuals in Uganda and ginning up irrational prejudice against them) I would DESERVE the rhetorical condemnation, just as the many homosexual men who have traveled to Uganda as sex tourists to prey on boys (or became priests in the Catholic church to do the same) DESERVE condemnation. But it is a lie that I have accused ALL or even most homosexuals of being child molesters, and I have been consistently clear on that since the start of my ministry. And of course it is a lie that I promoted the death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda.

I have never accused ALL or even most homosexuals of being responsible for the AIDS epidemic, even though year upon year since the beginning of the crisis our own governmental Centers For Disease Control has identified MSM (men who have sex with men) as by far the largest group spreading the disease. (And how do you think all those women sleeping with bisexuals got it?).

Wait for it….Now hear the screams of outrage on the left, the wailing and gnashing of teeth. “See, there he is again spreading hate against homosexuals!!!” But this ISN’T hate. If I truly hated homosexuals, or even AIDS-infected homosexuals, would I have brought “gay” activist AIDS victim Sonny Weaver into my home with my wife and four young sons to care for him during the last year of his life — after he was forced out of his home and job as manager of a “gay” apartment building because he converted to Christianity? (Read about this in my introduction to Redeeming the Rainbow at

http://www.defendthefamily.com/rtr/)

I have never accused any but a very tiny fraction of homosexual men of being genocidal or cannibalistic “monsters” in the vein of Jeffrey Dahmer, though they dominate the list of “most prolific serial killers and mass murderers.” Look it up! It ISN’T hate to state this fact, or the fact that many of the most important icons of “gay” history (Karl Ulrichs, Henry Gerber, Alan Ginsberg, David Thorstad, Harvey Milk, etc etc ) have been pederasts. Even Harry Hay, the founder of the American “gay” movement was so much a champion of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) that he would wear a sign saying “Nambla Walks With Me” in the Gay Pride parades after that group had been banned by organizers. I applaud those organizers. I condemn Harry Hay and NAMBLA. Where is the hate here??

Social leftists may not like these facts but they are facts, and it is decidedly NOT HATE to invoke these facts in a discussion about what social policy our society should be following regarding sexual matters. I, and most of the other “hate groups” on the SPLC list advocate the biblical view that all sex belongs in marriage and all sex outside of authentic marriage should be discouraged by society. We do NOT advocate hate or violence against anyone. We do not even advocate that homosexuality be purged from our society. We just want mainstream culture to go back to being marriage and family centered and for the “gays,” adulterers and other dissenters to go back to discrete sub-cultures that refrain from marching through the streets and taking over public schools to promulgate their agendas. It is self-evident truth (in any objective review of our national history from the 1940s to the present) that the Judeo-Christian model — as a guide to public policy — produces strong families, personal and public health and social stability while the “gay” ethic of “sexual freedom” produces family breakdown, disease and social instability.

The facts cited here are EVIDENCE, not that all homosexuals are evil, but that homosexuality as a FORM OF VOLUNTARY CONDUCT, is, as Pope John Paul best articulated “intrinsically disordered.” It is not hate to believe or state this any more than it is hateful to believe or state that other behavioral problems such as alcoholism or bulimia are disordered. Is Mothers Against Drunk Driving an anti-alcoholic hate group?? Do the eating disorder critics want anorexics and bulimics to be beaten and killed? Give me a break. You insist they’re all “born that way?” Big deal, that doesn’t make my disagreement with you “hate.” And besides, you can’t prove immutability, so we who insist according to simple common sense that young people can ACQUIRE a “gay” identity by experimentation with “gay” sex MUST get the benefit of the doubt in public policy. But I digress.

Thank God that the SPLC is finally being held up to public scrutiny, but it as an organization is only one (very powerful) component of a culture-wide propaganda machine following the Communist strategy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and the “gay” marketing strategy of Kirk and Madsen in After the Ball. Every American, AND EVERY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL who has been persuaded to view disapproval of homosexuality as hate should read those books to see the nefarious agenda behind the pretty facade of the modern “gay rights.” (See the article on which After the Ball was based for an even more forthright discussion of the “gay“ blueprint: “The Overhauling of Straight America” http://cnsnews.com/blog/pete-winn/gay-playbook-and-how-its-overhauling-america).

The other day Dana Milbank (no conservative he) wrote an editorial for the Washington Post criticizing the SPLC for listing FRC as a hate group.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html

Kudos to him for fair-mindedness. But he also said in the piece that the “Gays and lesbians are winning the fight for equality by example and persuasion.” That is just plain wrong. The homosexual movement is gaining increasing political control over the various spheres of our society because it controls the most powerful propaganda machine in our nation. One which promotes and zealously guards the public image of homosexuals as only model citizens and paragons of virtue. All contrary opinion or contradictory facts are ruthlessly suppressed. And this has been the case for so long that only a handful of people like myself still dare to challenge them — at enormous personal cost.

The solution to this problem is not a counter-revolution defining homosexuals as only evil and corrupt. That is not our belief or argument. The solution is the reintroduction to the public debate of the truthful factual evidence that homosexuality is NOT a healthy basis for our social order nor a form of sexual conduct to normalize to children. And at the same time we need to offer the reminder that homosexuals who desire to live among us according to their original demand in the 1950s — the right to be left alone — are welcome to do so in the spirit of true tolerance that defined “Don’t ask, Don’t tell.” We really need a civilian version of that for America.

To achieve that, and avoid the moral cliff we are now speeding toward, we need an open and honest public debate about the future of our sexual morality in our society, in which the truth about homosexuality and the homosexual agenda is fully discussed, as well as the Judeo-Christian alternative to the “sexual freedom” model we’ve been suffering under for decades now. One in which Christians and Jews are not cast as “hateful bigots” undeserving of free speech rights. If after that honest debate the public chooses the way of sin, so be it. It wouldn’t be the first time in history. But absent a return to honesty in our public debate the way is clear: increasingly aggressive homo-fascism until Judeo-Christian morality is purged from our culture, and then collapse.

The biggest and most dangerous homo-fascist now on the field is the Southern Poverty Law Center because it wields the power to discredit and marginalize any person or group who is perceived as a threat to the propaganda machine. Every pro-family conservative in America needs to investigate and expose this hateful and hate-mongering organization, especially to the law enforcement and public education communities which still uses SPLC as an education and training resource. And I urge you all to join with me in prayer that God, of His own power, and in a way that is clearly Him and not a human hand, will save the staff and members but completely destroy the SPLC as an entity.