Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Scott Douglas Lively (born December 14, 1957) is an American activist, author, attorney, and a former independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election. He is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization based in Temecula, California. He was the state director of the California branch of the American Family Association and a spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance.Lively has called for the criminalization of \"the public advocacy of homosexuality\" as far back as 2007. He gave \"a series of talks\" to Ugandans and met with Ugandan lawmakers immediately before anti-gay legislation in Uganda was drafted. He appeared in Russian television channel Russia-1's documentary titled Sodom in September 2014.He has been interviewed in radio and television about his involvement in the ex-gay movement and his opposition to LGBT advocacy. According to a January 2011 profile, Lively \"has not changed his view that gays are 'agents of America's moral decline,' but he has refocused his approach to fit his parishioners in Springfield, Massachusetts\", and \"is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden.\"On August 14, 2013, an American federal judge ruled that the case against Scott Lively, by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a Uganda-based coalition of LGBT rights and advocacy groups, can move forward against him. This is a first-of-its-kind case in which the lawsuit alleges that Lively's actions over the past decade, in collaboration with some Ugandan government officials and Ugandan religious leaders, are responsible for depriving LGBT Ugandans of their fundamental human rights based solely on their identity, which the lawsuits alleges falls under the definition of persecution under international law and is a crime against humanity. This effort resulted in the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, which Lively allegedly helped engineer.Lively denounced the \"global warming doctrine\" as \"a scheme by transnational Marxist elites to establish a system for global taxation and redistribution of wealth.\""@en }
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- Scott_Lively abstract "Scott Douglas Lively (born December 14, 1957) is an American activist, author, attorney, and a former independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election. He is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization based in Temecula, California. He was the state director of the California branch of the American Family Association and a spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance.Lively has called for the criminalization of \"the public advocacy of homosexuality\" as far back as 2007. He gave \"a series of talks\" to Ugandans and met with Ugandan lawmakers immediately before anti-gay legislation in Uganda was drafted. He appeared in Russian television channel Russia-1's documentary titled Sodom in September 2014.He has been interviewed in radio and television about his involvement in the ex-gay movement and his opposition to LGBT advocacy. According to a January 2011 profile, Lively \"has not changed his view that gays are 'agents of America's moral decline,' but he has refocused his approach to fit his parishioners in Springfield, Massachusetts\", and \"is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden.\"On August 14, 2013, an American federal judge ruled that the case against Scott Lively, by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a Uganda-based coalition of LGBT rights and advocacy groups, can move forward against him. This is a first-of-its-kind case in which the lawsuit alleges that Lively's actions over the past decade, in collaboration with some Ugandan government officials and Ugandan religious leaders, are responsible for depriving LGBT Ugandans of their fundamental human rights based solely on their identity, which the lawsuits alleges falls under the definition of persecution under international law and is a crime against humanity. This effort resulted in the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, which Lively allegedly helped engineer.Lively denounced the \"global warming doctrine\" as \"a scheme by transnational Marxist elites to establish a system for global taxation and redistribution of wealth.\"".