Social conservative Scott Lively on
Friday claimed that gay rights deny Christians their First Amendment
rights.
Lively, founder of the
Massachusetts-based Defend the Family International and a failed
gubernatorial candidate, made his remarks during an interview with
The Dove TV.
He explained that God was punishing
America with abortion rights and LGBT equality because it has
accepted “religious pluralism.”
“Well, I don’t actually believe in
‘religious freedom,’ the way that the term is used,” Lively
explained. “I know that when you use it and when most people
use it, you’re talking about Christianity. We’re not talking
about freedom for Islam and freedom for Buddhism and Hinduism as if
they're equal with God.”
“The number-one Commandment is ‘You
shall have no other gods before me.’ And when we forget that and we
start accepting this concept of religious pluralism and we say that
Jesus Christ is really no higher an authority in America than Buddha
or Mohammed or even Satan, that's when we have really dropped the
ball and we have brought disfavor from God on us.”
Losing “God's favor” has led to
legal abortion and increasing support for LGBT rights, Lively
claimed.
“If even one man, just one man, had
the favor of God, with the flimsiest of plans, he could have stopped
that, he could have stopped the gay agenda in very short order,” he
said.
Lively added that “we really are now
under occupation … by cultural Marxists,” which he compared to
the Nazi occupation of France.
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