Judge Rules That Anti-gay Scott Lively Must Stand Trial for Crimes Against Humanity In Uganda
by Will Kohler
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Ugandan LGBT advocacy organization which had filed a lawsuit against
prominent US anti-gay extremist Scott Lively who is accused of
engineering the Uganda 'Kill The Gays' bill, received good news
yesterday when a federal court judge ruled that Lively must stand trail
for crimes against humanity for his part in helping to push and engineer
Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill
Lively
stands accused of helping to play a part in the persecution, arrest and
murder of gay people in Uganda. Lively’s lawyers requested to dismiss
the lawsuit, but now a federal US judge has ruled a persecution of LGBT
people is indeed a crime against humanity and that Lively must stand
trial.
Michael
Ponsor, the US District Judge in Springfield, Massachusetts, said:
‘Widespread, systematic persecution of LGBT people constitutes a crime
against humanity that unquestionably violates international norms.’
‘The
history and current existence of discrimination against LGBT people is
precisely what qualifies them as a distinct targeted group eligible for
protection under international law.
‘The
fact that a group continues to be vulnerable to widespread, systematic
persecution in some parts of the world simply cannot shield one who
commits a crime against humanity from liability.’
Frank
Mugisha, director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, said: ‘Today’s ruling is
a significant victory for human rights everywhere but most especially
for LGBTI Ugandans who are seeking accountability from those
orchestrating our persecution.
Lively
the founder of Abiding Truth Ministries, an officially recognized hate
group has made a career of stirring up anti-gay feelings in the USA and
across the world.
He
co-authored The Pink Swastika, which suggests ‘homosexuals were the
truth inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi
atrocities’ and the rainbow flag is a symbol of the ‘end times’.
In
2007, Lively also toured 50 cities in Russia where he is accused of
recommending a ban on 'gay propaganda' and in 2011 was a driving force
is pushing Uganda's anti-gay laws.
Source: Gay Star News
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