MASSACHUSETTS
New York Daily News
By Larry Mcshane / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, March 15, 2012
A Massachusetts evangelist was sued by an East African gay advocacy group that accuses him of helping draft a Ugandan bill to impose the death penalty on homosexuals.
Scott Lively, of Abiding Truth Ministries, was slapped with a federal lawsuit asking for a judgment that his actions violated international law — and seeking cash damages.
“We hope that he will be held accountable for what he did in Uganda,” said human rights activist Frank Mugisha of Sexual Ministries Uganda. “We want to send out a clear message to him and others.”
Mugisha, the 2011 winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, blamed Lively for “helping spread propaganda and violence” against gays in Uganda.
Lively, whose parish is based in Springfield, Mass., was among a group of U.S. clergy which visited Uganda in 2009 — just before debate began on the bill.
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