24 Facts About Scott Lively

Scott Douglas Lively was born on December 14,1957 and is an American activist, author, and attorney, who is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, an anti-LGBT group based in Temecula, California.

Scott Lively was a cofounder of Latvia-based group Watchmen on the Walls, state director of the California branch of the American Family Association, and a spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance.

Scott Lively unsuccessfully attempted to be elected as the governor of Massachusetts in both 2014 and 2018.

Scott Lively has called for the criminalization of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" as far back as 2007.

Scott Lively was born and raised in the town of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, the oldest of six children.

Scott Lively became an alcoholic at the age of 12, an addiction he explains as a means to cope with an unhappy family situation.

When Scott Lively was 16, his father was committed to a mental institution, never to return.

Scott Lively later graduated from Trinity Law School with a JD in 1999.

Scott Lively was an independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election.

Scott Lively ran again as a Republican candidate in the 2018 election.

In 1991, Scott Lively assaulted Catherine Stauffer, throwing her against a wall and dragging her across the floor of a Portland church, at an Oregon Citizens Alliance event she had been trying to film.

Scott Lively is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization based in Temecula, California which is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay hate group.

In 2006, Scott Lively met with Latvian pastor Alexey Ledyaev to form an international anti-gay organization called Watchmen on the Walls, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed a hate group.

Scott Lively spent the summer of 2006 lecturing at Latvian universities and meeting with lawmakers, and preached at Ledyaev's New Generation church.

In 2007, Scott Lively wrote a Letter to the Russian people in which he advocated criminalizing "the public advocacy of homosexuality".

Scott Lively appeared on Russian television channel Russia-1's documentary titled Sodom in September 2014.

Scott Lively has stated that he will endorse the bill if the death penalty is removed.

The lawsuit accused Scott Lively of violating international law by conspiring to persecute the Ugandan LGBT community.

Scott Lively was to answer the allegations under the Crime Against Humanity of Persecution.

Scott Lively has, in turn, accused the SPLC of "hypocrisy and anti-Christian extremism".

The American Family Association, the California branch of which Scott Lively has directed, is regarded by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

Kevin E Abrams and Lively co-authored The Pink Swastika.

Scott Lively is married to Anne Gardner and has four children.

In 2020 Scott Lively claimed Donald Trump lost the election because he is pro-LGBT.