{"id":183238,"date":"2015-01-18T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/18\/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-more-deserving-genocidal-monster\/"},"modified":"2015-01-18T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T03:06:00","slug":"it-couldnt-happen-to-a-more-deserving-genocidal-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/18\/it-couldnt-happen-to-a-more-deserving-genocidal-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"It Couldn&#8217;t Happen to a More Deserving Genocidal Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attempted genocide suit against Scott Lively, one of the architects of Uganda&#8217;s &#8220;Kill the Gays&#8221; bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2014\/12\/08\/american-pastor-who-helped-uganda-create-kill-the-gays-law-will-be-tried-for-crimes-against-humanity\/\">will be allowed to go forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Most of us go our entire lives without ever standing trial for crimes against humanity. Then again, most of us aren\u2019t&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2014\/09\/23\/republican-gay-assassinate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notorious bigot<\/a> Pastor Scott Lively, whose life work seems to be to ask the question: \u201cHow can I make gay people miserable across the world?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the United States Lively\u2019s homophobic messages are largely  ignored, and in recent years he has had to endure various setbacks at  the state and federal level as equality makes historic gains.  Undeterred, Lively has sought out foreign lands where his particular  brand of ruthless anti-gay ideas are more accepted. In Uganda, he found a  home away from home. During a Christian \u201cworkshop\u201d in the African  nation he managed to become one of the principal architects behind some  of the most retrograde anti-gay legislation on the planet.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Unfortunately for Lively, orchestrating genocide in another country is kind of frowned upon, and in 2012 a lawsuit was filed against Lively in federal court in Massachusetts for crimes against humanity. This week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals denied Lively\u2019s final request to have it dismissed because, well, the whole genocide thing.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lets be clear:&nbsp; This is not criminal charges.&nbsp; This is a civil suit under the Alien Tort Statute, but the judge has allowed discovery to proceed, and this should detail the full extent of Mr. Lively&#8217;s perfidy.<\/p>\n<p>He has been protesting that he actually recommended against jailing (and in earlier versions executing) the LGBT community in Uganda, but I am certain that discovery will show that he was actively advocating for genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that he is left bankrupt and broken by this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attempted genocide suit against Scott Lively, one of the architects of Uganda&#8217;s &#8220;Kill the Gays&#8221; bill, will be allowed to go forward: Most of us go our entire lives without ever standing trial for crimes against humanity. Then again, most of us aren\u2019t&nbsp;notorious bigot Pastor Scott Lively, whose life work seems to be to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,969,972,1030,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-evil","category-justice","category-lgbtq","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}