Scott Lively: Gays and liberals shredded the Magna Carta and now they're after the 1st Amendment
Pastor Scott Lively has republished a column warning that “the First Amendment is under siege” by the gay rights movement which seeks “to crush (civil rights) under the heels of its pink jackboots.” Lively, best known for his work promoting Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, said that the Constitution is the only document "still standing as a barrier to the homosexual agenda” and that “true human rights will be finished in America (and by extension the rest of the western world)” if “the First Amendment falls to the ‘gays.’”
Moreover, this "right to sodomy" actually undermines true human rights, as exemplified by the collapse of the Magna Charta in the United Kingdom. The first principle of that venerable human rights document declares that "The English Church shall be free." This principle, established in the bedrock of British jurisprudence in 1215, stood unshakable for nearly 800 years until the rise of the "gay" movement which has in just the past decade achieved the power to redefine religious liberty as "homophobia" and to crush it under the heels of its pink jackboots.
My friends, understand the gravity of what I am saying. If the First Amendment falls to the “gays” like the Magna Charta did, true human rights will be finished in America (and by extension the rest of the western world). There is no fall-back position. The First Amendment is the last bastion of freedom for Christians. If it fails, serious persecution of all who dare to speak the truth of the Bible will follow close behind. Pray fervently that it will stand!
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lively-true-human-rights-finished-gay-rights-movement-succeeds
Lively couldn't be more wrong if he tried or he is just a plain liar.
The part about the English Church being free is still a part of English Law to this day. So right off the bat Scott is not only wrong about the Magna Carta being done away with, the very part he mentions is still around.
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The Magna Carta was a great document... at the time. It had no protections for those who were not freemen. Parts of the Magna Carta were done away with, not in the last decade, but as far back as the 1800's, because you know, everyone is a freeman now. I don't know why Scott is so up in arms about that... unless he wants some people to be serfs again.
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Another thing the International Gay and Liberal Conspiracy did with their replacing parts of the Magna Carta with newer and crazy laws was get rid of defense of the clergy, members of the clergy could practically do anything except commit murder or witchcraft and simply say that they were a member of the clergy and it was an actual defense and they would be acquitted. Persecution in the eyes of Scott Lively? He would like something like that.
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Lively loses out to the truth.
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Scott probably gets his 'history' from the History Channel. 
The Magna Carta was originally used by feudal barons, in an attempt to limit the powers of the king by law and protect their privileges! IOW, it was the plutocracy of old trying to make sure their greedy asses were not plundered by the king!
Of course most people will never know that or at one time there were 3 Popes and they all had illegitimate children.
The Crusades - nothing to do with religion and everything to do with keeping the bored, rich feudal barons (sound familiar) at bay from killing eachother and perhaps the Court system as well.
The fact that we got some trickle down common laws from it, is just lucky happenstance imo.
