Comments on: In Brief: Scott Lively Hanging Up His Swastika

By: Leonardo Ricardo

Leonardo Ricardo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:55:44 +0000

Don’t be silly…he’s not stupid, he’s just a shabby merchant and he knows that after his prepaid escapade before the Parliment of Uganda his “snake oil” cure/refrom-a-queer is running on low…he has little audience left and the audience he plays to doesn’t even have the stomach for the kind of junktalk he spews…the party is over, Lively sinks into the stink of his own lubricating.

By: Mike Airhart

Mike Airhart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:52:23 +0000

I see no indication that Lively has hung anything up — he has promised an upcoming fifth edition of the book The Pink Swastika and he has essentially declared the book to be infallible and beyond further discussion.

Instead of responding to the new criticisms of Warren Throckmorton and Jim Burroway, he is broadening his tactics of anger, envy, fear, and strawman argumentation to include other right-wing topics so as not to be perceived as someone whose spirit is consumed by idolatrous homophobia.

By: Jayelle Wiggins-Lunacharsky

Jayelle Wiggins-Lunacharsky — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:45:29 +0000

I always wonder whether our opponents/enemies get tired. I’m actually gratified to see that sometimes they do. It’s obvious Lively hasn’t learned a thing, but thank the Gods anyway, even if this is only a break rather than the end of the line.

By: Yuki Choe

Yuki Choe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:13:04 +0000

It still amazes me how people like Lively thinks he knows homosexuals better than homosexuals themselves. And when telling us how to run our lives fail, they go through all sort of ways to ensure that they get to fully control us, from who we are to how we live.

By: William

William — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:33:19 +0000

Incidentally, good news, everyone! Gay sex has just been decriminalized in India. So perhaps countries like Uganda may eventually catch up, despite the hateful, pernicious campaigns of Lively and his like. We can but hope and pray.

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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:00:20 +0000

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By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:08:55 +0000

Lively isn’t going to stop preaching his obfuscations and outright lies about gay people. He’s just tired, and I imagine seeing that he is too much in a negative light by even some other anti-gay groups. He hasn’t been able to effectively fight off that negativity, even though he, self-righteously proclaims:

….there is just not much left to learn about any given subject. For example, it has been at least seven years since I have heard an original challenge, question or argument about homosexuality from its defenders/proponents.

Frankly, I have heard it all ad nauseum, and effectively responded to every variation of every aspect of pro-”gay” rhetoric hundreds if not thousands of times.

It’s probably nothing but a ploy by Lively to hope to get the SPLC hate group moniker taken off his Abiding Truth Ministries. Likely he will recreate himself under some new banner (“Defend the Family?”) and hope the SPLC won’t notice that he’s trying to do a ‘bait and switch.’

By: William

William — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:50:14 +0000

Scott Lively’s language is revealing of his self-exaltation. He says that he has “completed 20 years of service” and speaks of his “long tour of duty”. Wasn’t there an Austrian man back in the 1930’s and 1940’s who had similar delusions of grandeur? That he’s finally hanging up his swastika is certainly gratifying news. His presence has filled a much needed gap.

By: Emily K

Emily K — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:42:02 +0000

I have a patch of that image on my jacket. It’s a great one.