Oregon Citizens Alliance man to be tried for crimes against humanity
The name felt too familiar and as I read further I learned why.
Years past, this man was "reeking" (sic) havoc in Oregon. Scott Lively, about whom this (and other) posts here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/121890718
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Scott D. Lively first came to light as an anti-gay activist in the early 1990s in Oregon, when he was involved with the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) in a variety of capacities: executive director, finance coordinator, finance director, and communications director. The OCA had (and still has) a reputation as a vitriolic and virulently anti-gay organization under the leadership of ex-hippie and Vietnam veteran Lon Mabon, who left his leftist roots and became a born-again Christian.
The OCA was supported by Oregon's branch of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and worked constantly to put draconian and far-reaching anti-gay measures on the state ballot. The most notorious of those was Ballot Measure 9 (1992), which would have amended the state constitution to prohibit 'all governments in Oregon" from using monies or properties to "promote, encourage or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism.'
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Lively became known as a prominent spokesman for the OCA during its bruising and damaging anti-gay campaigns, and he was earning a reputation for belligerence, as well. In a 1991 incident, he allegedly threw lesbian photographer Catherine Stauffer against a wall at a screening of an OCA video and then dragged her out of the room by her hair. She sued both Lively and the OCA, and a jury ruled that Lively used unreasonable force and awarded Stauffer $30,000.
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from http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/scott-lively
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