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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMay 22nd, 2011
The latest edition of The Public Eye includes a profile on Holocaust revisionist and anti-gay extremist Scott Lively. The the name in the profile’s byline is probably familiar to most BTB readers, and it includes information about how Lively used several anti-gay initiatives in Oregon to develop his outlandish “theories” that gays were responsible for Nazism. The Public Eye is published quarterly by Political Research Associates.
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Titus
May 22nd, 2011
Very impressive research!
Timothy Kincaid
May 22nd, 2011
One item of interest. The Pentecostal Assemblies of God is NOT the same as the mega-huge Assemblies of God denomination.
PAGA is a small mostly-Californian organization. See if perhaps you can find a bit of emphasis in one area in their statement of faith:
Hey, top billing!
I may be confusing them with another small outfit, but if I understand correctly, PAGA is mostly a collective of extremely independent ministries. Basically a means for a minister to be ordained without him having to be under the oversight of another minister or to answer to any representative body.
Darina
May 22nd, 2011
Oh, “scientific interference with natural human progeny”!
Whhere does the Bible say “Thou shalt not use assisted reproduction”?
Ken R
May 23rd, 2011
I noticed in the list it doesn’t say anything about divorce/remarriage. Or would that fall under adultery?
Reed Boyer
May 23rd, 2011
Dear Jim Burroway:
“Lively’s Lies” is excellent, wonderful, copiously well-documented (right down to noting Lively’s re-editings and other attempts at alteration), and leaves me with insufficient superlatives.
It is good. Randy Shilts good. I can say nothing higher than that.
I love you madly; keep up the awesome work of writing – and of life.
Richard Rush
May 23rd, 2011
Jim, that’s an excellent article.
Well, at least he and his five siblings can be thankful they had the benefit of having the coveted mom and a dad that we hear so much about. Imagine how much worse their upbringing would have been if their parents had been a gay couple.
I can’t help suspecting there is a lot more to this and the rest of his story. It seems that we only know what he chose to present publicly about his early life. And we already know he’s a chronic liar.
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