Anti-gay Pastor Scott Lively sued under international law for inciting persecution of gays

On Monday, January 7, lawyers representing Sexual Minorities Uganda will make oral arguments in a landmark case that aims to hold the American founder of Abiding Truth Ministries, anti-gay Scott Lively, responsible for inciting persecution of LGBT people in Uganda.  

SMUG v. Scott Lively was filed in federal district court in March 2012, and alleges that the Evangelical pastor's efforts in Uganda to equate homosexuality with the Nazis, Rwandan genocide, pedophilia and more, violate international human rights law.

Many observers lay Uganda's still pending "kill the gays" bill squarely at Scott Lively's feet.

The case is the first of its kind, and relies on a 200-year-old law known as the Alien Tort Statute, which gives "survivors of egregious human rights abuses, wherever committed, the right to sue the perpetrators in the United States," according to the Center for Justice and Accountability. 

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