3/18/14

Scott Lively shines some reality on St Patrick's parades

This is it, folks. The crossover is complete. After filtering out Irish LGBT groups and other Irish groups whose "message" the parade organizers don't like, and after making these cherished old Irish parades "private" and "Catholic" and all about military men and their gritted-teeth-smiling wives, the jig is up. These are the dregs. All that remains is the swill of homophobia and murderous religious-right.

He's done with Uganda and Nigeria, and now to attend to the business of destroying the lives, communities, and families of queers at home. Scott Lively is welcomed by the keep-the-gays-out movement of St. Patrick's Day parades. Why not? He's one of them.

Governor candidate and anti-gay activist Scott Lively marches in Boston St. Patrick's Parade

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Pastor Scott Lively (center) enters U.S. District Courthouse in Springfield in this past photograph. (John Suchocki / The Republican)
The Republican NewsroomBy The Republican Newsroom 
on March 16, 2014 at 6:51 PM, updated March 16, 2014 at 7:01 PM


BOSTON – Springfield-based anti-gay minister Scott Lively announced he proudly marched in Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day which many politicians skipped because parade organizers have banned gay, bisexual and lesbian groups. 

Lively, a Shelburne Falls native who owns the Holy Grounds coffee shop in Springfield, is running as a independent candidate for governor. He said he marched with his new running mate Shelly Saunders, of Springfield, and a small contingent of supporters. 

Many other politicians, including Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Congressman Stephen Lynch, skipped the parade after they could not come to an agreement with organizers to allow gays and lesbians to march in the parade. The maker of Sam Adams beer also withdrew his support. 

“The LGBT bullies, including Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, are giving the St. Paddy’s Day Parade organizers a hard time for keeping the parade a family-friendly event, but they are standing strong for family values and not bowing to intimidation,” Lively said in a press release. 

“The media is predictably crying ’discrimination,’ but thank God the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the parade organizers have the constitutional right to exclude anyone they please,” he said in writing. 

Lively said he was marching to represent all the voters who believe in “authentic marriage and the Biblical model of family.” 

Lively is no stranger to controversy. His crusade against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has taken him around the world and most recently to federal court. Based on his anti-gay talks in Uganda, where the anti-gay movement pushed a bill to passage that criminalizes homosexuality, Lively is accused of crimes against humanity in a lawsuit filed by human rights groups Sexual Minorities Uganda and New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. 

He also recently defended reality show “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson’s who compared homosexuality to bestiality. 

He jumped into the 2014 Massachusetts governor’s race this fall as an independent candidate to “unapologetically articulate Biblical values without fear or compromise.“ 

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