Sully highlights a truly disturbing video taken of Christianist fanatic Scott Lively spewing forth a vile screed against homosexuals in Uganda:

The “Nuclear Bomb” Against Gays. That’s the term used by American Christianist Scott Lively to advocate for the new law in Uganda. He now claims to be shocked at any idea that he could endorse the execution of people for homosexuality and appalled by the violence threatened against gays in Uganda during the evangelicals’ anti-gay crusade in Africa.

[This] video of Lively’s talk in Uganda reveals what he says when he doesn’t think he’s being watched by Americans. He likens gays to mass killers, as the kind of people who would create a holocaust, as terrible dangers to civilization. This is the core of the Christianist message and the Christianist message is now the core of the GOP. At some point, you have to take these people’s words seriously.

It is important to point out that Scott Lively, this hate-filled sack of human excrescence, is no stranger to pushing for laws that attack and demonize homosexuals.

I know because I lived through a harrowing time during my teen years in Oregon when Scott Lively was a primary driving force behind Ballot Measure 9, a measure forced on the state by the rightwing Oregon Citizens Alliance that would have amended the Oregon constitution to include the following:

All governments in Oregon may not use their monies or properties to promote, encourage or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism. All levels of government, including public education systems, must assist in setting a standard for Oregon’s youth which recognizes that these behaviors are abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse and they are to be discouraged and avoided.

Suffice it to say that this man and his hate-filled cohorts tore my young psyche apart in the 90s with this vicious campaign to enshrine fear and hatred in my state’s founding document.

I’m just too pissed off right now to write much more, but here is a representative sample of the violence that Scott Lively visited upon me in my formative years:

‘In the past, the OCA has been compared with the Nazis in its campaigning methods and goals, so this time around, they are turning the tables by claiming that not they, but the gays are ones who should be compared to Nazis. In the state Voter’s Pamphlet the organization says “Nazism was largely an outgrowth of Germany’s gay rights movement.”

‘The GT article states: “Lively said in a letter to the editor in The Daily Astorian that homosexuals ‘were an integral part of the Nazi party throughout history.’” The article goes on to say: “Lively said Wednesday that gays were in Nazi ranks but that does not mean they managed the Holocaust. ‘The fact that homosexuals were in the leadership of the Nazi party from the beginning is a fact documented by respected historians,’ he said. ‘The holocaust was racial genocide of the Jews that had nothing to do with homosexuality.”‘

See also “OCA: Gays Had Big role in Nazism“