Kudos to the Gazette for affirming my First Amendment right to advocate my views on homosexuality in Uganda (Gazette editorial, Jan. 25).
If only the ironically named “Center for Constitutional Rights” (CCR) shared that respect for free speech there would be no lawsuit against me.
Alarmingly, far too many liberals today rank so-called gay rights above the actual rights enumerated in our Constitution, and they justify lying and cheating as acceptable means to achieve them.
For example, in its lawsuit, CCR cited the murder of SMUG leader David Kato as its chief example of persecution of homosexuals in Uganda, without revealing to the court that Kato’s confessed killer was actually his gay lover and houseboy now serving 30 years for the crime.
Indeed, all the “facts” most essential to SMUG’s case are misrepresentations.
The Gazette also cited my assertion that “the gay movement is an evil institution (that aims) to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity” to declare that my message in Uganda was neither reasoned nor factual.
However, declaring something “evil” is the purview of the clergy, my vocation, following basic Biblical reasoning.
And the LGBT agenda to overthrow marriage-based society is well-documented. For example, Herbert Marcuse, progenitor of LGBT radicalism, identified “the repressive order of procreative sexuality” as the barrier to true sexual freedom in America, requiring “the disintegration … of the monogamic and patriarchal society.” Freedom of speech cannot survive in a climate of intellectual dishonesty.
To declare someone’s arguments irrational and false solely because you disagree with them is poisonous to public debate.
Again kudos for defending my right to free speech.
But shame on you for cherry-picking inflammatory tidbits from my opponents writings about me to perpetuate their narrative rather than acknowledging there are really two sides to this debate.
My side has many enlightening facts and arguments that the members of the public never see in their newspapers due to suppression by the very people entrusted with informing them.
Scott Lively
Springfield
The Rev. Scott Lively is a native of Shelburne Falls.