Scott Lively is the western Massachusetts-based ex-gay activist most famous for claiming that Nazi Germany was run by a hypermasculine homosexual conspiracy.
Lively co-founded the east European organization Watchmen on the Walls, which applauds violence against gay people and has been certified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
Lively also joined with Exodus International board member Don Schmierer in Uganda to co-keynote a March 2009 ex-gay conference, the purpose of which was to launch a nationwide campaign of antigay vigilantism — led by at least one alleged ex-gay child-molester — and to impose a death penalty upon that nation’s LGBT population.
In an article on his ex-gay organization’s web site dated for release tomorrow, Lively equates Christian compassion with less-than-desirable effeminacy — and violence with true “masculine Christianity.”
Unfortunately, the modern American church, along with the majority of its leaders, has rejected masculinity in favor of an effeminate Christianity.
Lively addresses his audience as “brethren,” as if his female readers were irrelevant:
Brethren, this is not an attack on femininity. If anything, the church should be commended for its appreciation for and fulfillment of the feminine aspects of its role. The vital compassion-based ministries ‚Äî feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and soothing the broken-hearted ‚Äî are prospering today. These ministries are very much a reflection of the feminine side of Christ’ complete personality.
In Lively’s brutal worldview, it is unmanly to be compassionate, charitable, graceful, humble, or nurturing. Lively idolizes Biblical hyperwarriors, some of whom are guilty of indiscriminate slaughter against the women and children of rival tribes in the ancient Middle East.
The defining characteristic of each of these examples is the conquest of evil by God’ people — mostly men. … The church and this nation cry out for a revival of masculine Christianity, which is to say that we church leaders need to stop being such, for lack of a better word, sissies when it comes to social and political issues.
Lively concludes with a sociopathic call to war against those who might educate the Christian Right’s children and young adults in alternatives to violence, bigotry, and rejection of religious diversity, history, science, and community values:
We have reached that split-second of decision in which we must choose whether to rush forward into battle on the chance that we can defeat the invaders, or to surrender and look on in resignation as our children are marched off into slavery in a foreign land.
Violence and deliberate ignorance: True markers of “masculinity” among the ex-gay Christian Right. According to Lively, this machismo is under mortal threat not only from uppity women, but also from the same educated, lazy sissies who operated the supposedly hypermasculine Nazi regime.
Go figure.
Wow, what a mess! His comments remind me of something Joseph Goebbels would have said. The sad thing is that he has no clue what a Christian is! He needs to re-read his Bible and pay very close attention to the entire point of Christianity, i.e., Christ! And the commandments and instructions from Christ as to how we are to treat one another and comport ourselves as true, decent Christians.
Christ bull-whipped His way through the Temple after it had been perverted.
He was not some hippie from antiquity. He was known as the Lion as well as the Lamb.
Gaige, Jesus of Nazareth was also anti-capitalist and demanded that his followers give up family life to join his commune: Specifically, he is said to have demanded that his followers give away every last possession that they had to the poor, and follow him.
His actions in the temple were said to have been against moneychangers, not “perverts.” For modern counterparts, look to today’s evangelical megachurches, which are little more than profit-making pep rallies and merchandising schemes that are devoid of charity, humility, or communal sharing.
This a*s jusst leaves me stunned. I am without adequate words for such stupidity and arrogance. Ignorance cannot be blamed in this person’s blatterings. What really amazes me is that no-mind entities listen to this garbage. Have ALL the billies left the hills?!?
Dakotahgeo, M. Div. Pastor/Chaplain