{Posted at Bene Diction Blogs on April 3 2014)
Today as I write, I heard, over the Internet, an independent candidate who is running for governor of Massachusetts speaking at an all-candidates meeting organized by the LGBT community
Scott Lively, a very conservative Christian activist, naturally tried to make the case that governments should try to be more neutral on homosexuality. His audience wasn't pleased.
Before I moved on, I was thinking "Where do I know the name 'Scott Lively' from?" Oh Right, he co-wrote The Pink Swastika. a book which argues that Nazism in Germany was rife with homosexuality.
Has someone put two and two together and realized that Lively is running for governor? Boston magazine was well ahead of the curve, http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2013/02/26/scott-lively-anti-gay-uganda-governowriting on him when he was just thinking of running.
They report that Lively was in Uganda helping several leaders in Uganda who would go on to pass anti-gay legislation in that country. Interesting precedent should he, by some fluke, be elected.
I wonder if someone brought a copy of The Pink Swastika to the candidates meeting.