Gay Rights Opponent Travels To Campaign For Discrimination

Scott Lively of Abiding Truth Ministries has made it very clear he's against a proposed ordinance that protects against LGBT discrimination.  So much so that he's traveling from Springfield, Massachusetts to try to kill it.

From the Springfield News-Leader:

The ordinance passed a City Council committee in June and will be heard by the whole council in mid-August. Existing city law offers protections based on race, religion and other characteristics. The changes, endorsed by the Mayor's Commission on Human Rights and Community Relations, would make it illegal to deny someone a job, housing or public services based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

“My purpose in coming to Springfield is to oppose that,” Lively, of Springfield, Mass., said. 

“I believe that the anti-discrimination policy is the seed that contains the entire tree of the homosexual agenda,” Lively said. Once the anti-discrimination policy is passed, homosexual advocates “never (stop) expanding their power and control. ... It’s sort of like the cornerstone of the legal strategy for pressuring society to accept homosexuality.”

First, anti-discrimination policy really is the core of the homosexual agenda.  See, that means they aren't discriminated against and can choose how they live and who they love, a guarantee that they won't be treated poorly for being themselves.  I mean, that is what it's all about.  But thanks for calling them out for wanting fair treatment by law.

The great glaring wrongness with these idiots is that advocating mistreatment of people is their best solution to this "problem" in the population.  Because it has never crossed his mind, or those who support him, that people should be able to have control over their love lives.  That he can come so close to the truth and then flip it into something evil is a sight to behold.  To argue for discrimination so strongly is a disgrace to what he claims to represent.  To use oppression and encourage bad acts towards members of the LGBT community says all I need to say about this area and some of the "Christians" who live here.

Treat them so terrible that they'll live how I think they should.  That's all it comes down to.  That's their plan.

So we have two sides to this coin: those who want to treat people poorly based on something that is none of their business, or people who want to live free to choose who they love.


That this is even being debated, or that people are still confused on the matter, is amazing to me.  We're talking about the elementary concept of whether people can be denied fair and equal treatment by government and public entities even if some folks don't like who they are dating.