Anti-LGBTQ activist Scott Lively thinks government officials should be prosecuted for allowing gays to adopt children

Scott Lively, a homophobe for all seasons

I've been insistently covering the Hallmark Channel controversy because it presents something we should never forget. Behind their self-victimization and cries about persecution and accusations of "the radical gay agenda," the aim of religious right groups is to either erase the humanity of our community or confine us into their false definitions of who we are and what our lives are comprised of.

Lo and behold comes a long-time anti-LGBTQ activist by the name of Scott Lively to further illustrate this point. To the lucky who have never heard of him, Lively is an extreme homophobe. He wrote and published discredited book, The Pink Swastika, which accused gays of creating the Nazi party in Germany.

But Lively's biggest claim to infamy was going overseas to Uganda in 2009 with other religious right figures and railing against the LGBTQ community with such vitriol that Ugandan officials proposed the infamous "Kill the Gays" bill. If this bill had become law, people could have been legally executed in the country for being LGBTQ. Before it died in 2014, the part about execution was changed to long prison sentences.

Today, Lively is whining about gay adoption. With Lively, you always know what you're getting and it's very much uncensored. This particular column doesn't disappoint, especially with this passage about prosecuting government officials who allow gays to adopt:

The acquisition of children by homosexual partners to further their delusion of family normalcy is an act of extreme selfishness. It's their right to be wrong in what they believe, but not to impose their warped perspectives on innocent children, robbing them of the essential human right to some semblance of a natural family. 

Culpability for "gay" adoption also inures to government and agency officials who intentionally place children with homosexuals. In natural, moral and civil law, that act constitutes malfeasance – a gross violation of their duty to serve the best interests of children. I would prosecute them criminally if I had the power to do so.

Lively blames government officials for following the law. We won the right to legally adopt and we did it through hard work and logic. Not by hyperbole and fear-mongering.

It would be easy to laugh Lively off, but it would also be a mistake to ignore that there are some folks who feel the same as he. And if the Hallmark Channel controversy taught us anything it's that a lot of these folks feel that they are not only entitled to dehumanize us, but they also feel entitled to force others to agree with their actions against us under false idea that they are the normal ones and we are somehow the outside invading hordes attempting to force people in closets, boxes, and dark corners.

And we also shouldn't forget that for every one Scott Lively who proudly wears his homophobia and desire to diminish us like a badge of honor, there are other individuals and groups in the religious right who work slowly, steadily, and surreptitiously towards the same goal of undermining our rights and humanity.

Isn't that right, Alliance Defending Freedom?

Hat tip to Right-Wing Watch.