2016 is not shaping up to be a good year for virulently anti-gay pastor Scott Lively as he is facing a lawsuit by LGBT advocacy group Sexual Minorities Uganda because of his anti-gay activities in that country, and he is apparently out of money.
Right Wing Watch reported that Lively ended 2015 by publishing a couple of open letters to his fellow anti-gay activists begging for money and urging them to join him in pushing to the passage of Russian-style anti-gay laws in America and elsewhere.
Lively wrote, “My friends, SMUG v Lively is truly a David v Goliath battle. I’m running a one-man office on a shoestring budget of less than $120,000 per year, provided almost entirely by donations of $50 and $100 from average people. Our donor base is small, mostly elderly, and very difficult to expand due to the success of the anti-Lively propaganda. While Liberty Counsel has been funding our legal defense, this lawsuit has nevertheless caused us major financial hardship and seriously threatens our future.”
In a second letter Lively urges his supporters to work to adopt Russian-style anti-gay laws. According to Lively, “… the Russian law balances the privacy rights of adult homosexuals (who choose to live discretely outside the mainstream of society) with the need of the nation to protect its children from the ravages of sexual perversion.”
