Comments on: Scott Lively endorses anti-gay violence in Uganda

By: protected static

protected static — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:24:48 +0000

Dr Lively somehow manages to ignore the fact that people *were* agitating for sexual freedom as early as the 1820s.

By: Gregory Peterson

Gregory Peterson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:22:33 +0000

Of course, if you want to know why Lively may have chosen the 1890s as his moral exemplar, that’s when the Supreme Court ruled that this is a Christian nation…sort of.

Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States 1892.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity_v._United_States#Christian_nation

By: Gregory Peterson

Gregory Peterson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:09:07 +0000

The 1890s was when Reconstruction completely collapsed into Jim Crow,

Black people were massively disfranchised.

“In the 1890s an average of 187 lynchings occurred every year, mostly in the South. That’s roughly two a week, year in, year out (and) systematic festivals of torture…Southern leaders often cited the idea of the black male rapist as the justification for lynching, which is puzzling, since as (Ida) Wells’ investigation shows, lynching was much more often for trivial offenses…”

The economy was slow to recover from the financial Panic of 1893.

Figures that Lively would choose that wretched decade as a more moral time.

A Blood Red Record: the 1890s and American Apartheid
Michael O’Malley, Spring 1999
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/links/misclink/1890s/

The Panic of 1893
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h792.html

By: justsearching

justsearching — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:11:33 +0000

Rape, murder, violence, throat-cutting, and darkness from one side. Beauty, holiness, democracy, peace, and shining light on the other.

I can think of no other commentator that sees events through a prism of such stark moral dualism. He leaves no thought unwritten from his vile and feral imagination.

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:13:49 +0000

Indeed, and if Lively and his fellow Protestant heretics were transported back to say… the Papal States of the 17th century, he would have been burned at the stake as assuredly as Giordano Bruno was.

By: Ahab

Ahab — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:00:46 +0000

So much for Lively cleaning up his act with that little coffee shop stint. His hatred shows no signs of abating.

By: KZ

KZ — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:32:17 +0000

Dr Lively, there are too many opportunities to climb out of the hole you’ve dug for yourself, and yet, you choose to keep digging.

“It is the pink-gloved hand of western powers that are cutting the throat of Africa’s most God-fearing country, and one of the world’s most promising Christian democracies.”

Replace ‘pink-gloved hand’ with Jews and ‘Africa’ with Europe and he sounds like the very organization he accuses gays of running in the 1930′s and 40′s.

By: JayK

JayK — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:36:51 +0000

Lively was allowed a guest posting on Bryan Fischer’s blog. He’s boasting that there was no way his rhetoric was involved in Kato’s death, it was Kato’s gay lover that did it! They seem to think that this allows them to continue to bash gay’s at every opportunity, after all they haven’t done any direct harm, right?