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A Letter to the Lithuanian People (2007)<br />
I am Dr. Scott Lively, an American attorney and President of Defend the Family International,<br />
a human rights NGO. I hold a Doctor of Law and a Doctor of Theology, as well as special<br />
credentials in International Human Rights. I am the author of the Riga Declaration on Religious<br />
Freedom, Family Values and Human Rights (see http://www.defendthefamily.com/intl/), and an<br />
international lecturer on these topics.<br />
I came to Lithuania to warn the Lithuanian people about the threat posed to your society by<br />
the global homosexual political movement, which has begun to organize in your nation. At the<br />
outset, let me say that I advocate a high tolerance for the people who define themselves by their choice<br />
of a homosexual lifestyle, even while I promote a low tolerance for homosexual conduct. Homosexual<br />
activists would have you believe that tolerance for them requires total acceptance and approval of<br />
their lifestyle, but that is not obligatory, nor prudent. In fact, discrimination against homosexual<br />
behavior is necessary to protect your society from the consequences of “gay” culture, which always<br />
pushes for greater and greater liberalism in sexual attitudes, especially among young people. To see<br />
the danger of this we need look no further than Holland, where sexual liberalism promoted by the<br />
homosexual movement has led to the creation of a pedophile political party, whose right to hold seats<br />
in parliament, to advocate for the legalization of adult/child sexual relationships, has been approved<br />
by the Dutch courts.<br />
We should not, however, discriminate against persons who define themselves as homosexuals.<br />
They should be free to label themselves as they choose, no less so than other groups whose beliefs or<br />
goals are disapproved by the majority. Indeed, we can compare homosexuals to their chief adversaries,<br />
the radical nationalists. Both groups hate each other, and would like to do away with the other.<br />
Neither side is embraced by the majority, but both deserve the right to freedom of their beliefs and<br />
to freedom of speech within reasonable limits. The rest of us must be willing to tolerate these<br />
difficult neighbors to preserve civility for society as a whole.<br />
The chief danger of the homosexual movement is that it always seeks to take away the<br />
freedom of speech from anyone who disapproves of homosexuality. In Canada, where homosexual<br />
activism has enjoyed considerable success, there are now so-called Human Rights Tribunals which<br />
have the power to punish anyone who publicly opposes homosexuality by making the offender pay a<br />
monetary fine. The money is then given to the homosexual who filed the complaint. The most<br />
recent incident involved a Catholic member of the City Council of Kamloops, British Columbia. His<br />
offence was to call homosexuality “unnatural.” One wonders if Pope Benedict himself would face<br />
arrest in Canada, since he has repeatedly affirmed that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered.”<br />
Religious opinions are also silenced wherever homosexuals gain the power to silence them.<br />
Consider a recent case from Sweden. On June 29, 2004, Pastor Ake Green was sentenced to one<br />
month in jail for showing “disrespect” against homosexuals in the sermon he delivered in his pulpit in<br />
Borgholm. The title of his sermon was “Are people born with homosexual orientation or is it the<br />
result of influence by evil powers?” Pastor Green was eventually exonerated by the Swedish Supreme<br />
Court, but only over the vigorous objection of the “gay” activists in that nation (would the result have<br />
been the same if the judges were “gay”?).<br />
Just this week In Britain, the House of Lords approved a bill to prohibit private Christian<br />
schools from teaching their students that homosexuality is wrong.<br />
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