California GOP Group Hosts Author Who Claims Gays Behind Holocaust
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A chapter of a group once described by Ronald Reagan as the “conscience of the Republican Party” has announced 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 — a man it boastfully describes as “The Pastor Vilified by the Newspapers as a Hater Because of his stand Against the Promotion of Homosexuality.”
Lively, who runs Abiding Truth Ministries, co-authored the notorious book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party and claims that “the Nazi Party was entirely controlled by militaristic male homosexuals throughout its short history.” The book’s crude thesis, that gay men played instrumental roles in forming the Third Reich and carrying out the Holocaust, has been thoroughly discredited by real historians. (Lively’s speech to the Murrieta-Temecula group is entitled “The Pink Swastika.”) Lively is also co-founder of the anti-gay hate group Watchmen on the Walls.
The Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly’s leader did not return a message left by Hatewatch, but its website, adorned with the words “God Bless America,” does note that Lively “is called a ‘Hater’ by the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center.” (The SPLC 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 argued that gays and lesbians should be forced into conversion therapy as an “alternative” to Uganda’s current criminal punishment for homosexuality: life in prison. Lively compared the lives of lesbians and gays to those of alcoholics, claiming that “to 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).”
For years, Temecula was the home base of Lively’s Abiding Truth Ministries. But he has recently relocated his operations to Springfield, Mass. He also keeps up a busy speaking schedule in Russia and various former Soviet republics, promoting his book.
on March 25th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Anyone who believes the foolish drivel contained in this post is beyond foolish.
on March 25th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Anyone who believes that Scott Lively is a Christian should have their heads examined.
on March 26th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Even IF the idiots knew how to construct contextual demographics such as: “The head of the SA (Storm Troopers) Ernst Rhoem, who happen to be involved with homosexual interaction with adoring young men of the Third Reich….bla, bla” Instead of “ALL top Nazis are queer” because some were documented to be found in bed with their lovers…… – It wouldn’t make a difference because the concept is laughable.
Aryan supermen couldn’t breed unless they were at minimum bisexual; obviously. There may be some good humor here as the absurdity is so out to lunch; it’s up there with the UFO – tin-foil hat-crowd, & conspiracies.
The swastika was pink because the uniforms were laundered so much due to staining! The good & proper Nazis wanted everyone to live in peace but the bad Gay Nazis wanted to take over the world and may it (tremble-tremble) QUEER!”
on March 26th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
First, all I can say is alrighty-then. I guess the one upside to this ridiculous idea is that hopefully some of Lively’s followers will fear the Mass-Murdering Queers enough to leave us alone! (yeah, right. Ugh)
Secondly, Lively’s moving to Springfield, MA (perhaps the most liberal of states and right near the Lesbian-Capitol of Noho) makes me really want to move back, gather my peeps, and stand outside his house till he goes away.
on March 26th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Speaking of the whole notion of homosexuality as a threat to the Antient and Pecuilar Soverignty and Soverign Identity of Nations, an interesting item from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State about Religiopolitical Right opposition to President Obama’s endorsement of a proposed United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity:
on March 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Guess it takes all kinds to make the world go round. Many homosexuals were killed by the Nazis. The Nazis killed whoever they didn’t like and for whatever reason. Jews, Catholics and many people of all nationalities, the mentally and physically ill were targets. Can’t believe that there is actually a sanctioned Republican party group that espouses such viewpoints. We who feel that all people should be treated with respect need to be aware of these sorts of groups and not allow them to get too much power.
on March 27th, 2009 at 2:56 am
The first group fed into the maw of Nazi concentrastion camps were Jehova’s Witnesses – who do not take loyalty oath to any earthly government. The second group were the “mentally deficient” or mentally retarded. The third group were homosexuals, and then came the jews. Homosexuality was clearly outlawed in Nazi Germany, to believe that those same homosexuals were the ones running the government of this most criminal of regimes is laughable. That anyone seriously believes this jackass is frightening. I think gay people should start exercising their 2nd amendment rights with a passion.
on March 28th, 2009 at 10:20 am
While I certainly agree that Nazis targeted a plethora of groups, it was not only those who they superficially didn’t like but those who represented a co-incidental selection of those who presented an antipathetic interaction with their propaganda efforts as their priority.
It should be said that unfortunately those individuals may have only symbolically been “enemies of the State”. Thus the whole of their efforts should be examined in the light of [not only] a lack of logic but of a grotesque attempt at uniformity.
Many top Nazis had minor Jewish backgrounds but may have been “closet” homosexuals.
Even after a purge. National Socialism was a sham. The concept of Nationalist Socialism itself was a construct similar to groups today who make exceptions to “the Rules” based on expediency.
There was a distinct lack of “purity” in the Nazis way of doing things, albeit superficially they maintained an aura of consistent conformity to the “ideal”.
This is not unique to that era but today WN groups make vast exceptions that they attempt to shield behind a curtain of rigidity.
The Nazis had their own Bible; the writings of Hitler. This created a whole new selection of groups & individuals who were targeted. They & similar group eventually find it difficult to find enough people politically pure enough to be left in peace. They “eat their own children” & encourage the children to destroy their parents.