Mother Jones Profiles Scott Lively, the Former Oregonian Behind Uganda's Persecutions of Gays

By NIGEL JAQUISS

Mother Jones magazine has a timely profile of Scott Lively, a pastor who earned notoriety in Oregon in the 1990s for his work with the anti-gay Oregon Citizens Alliance. He's back in the news for his role in helping create a draconian new law targeting gay Ugandans.

After the 1992 failure of the Oregon Citizens' Alliance's Measure 9, which would have amended the constitution to declare homosexuality perverse, Lively left Oregon for California and subsequently moved on to Massachusetts but he's never stopped pushing an anti-gay agenda.

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