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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 03:41 PM
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Anti-Gay Evangelist Scott Lively Hires a Convicted Sex Offender
Notorious anti-gay political activist Rev. Scott Lively recently opened a coffee shop called "Holy Grounds" across the street from a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts. The shop requests a "donation" for coffee and tea, which basically meant it was free to the kids. The purpose was, after all, low key evangelization. But the Springfield Republican newspaper reports on its front page today that the shop manager has been arrested for failing to register as a convicted sex offender.


In fairness, Lively says he didn't know that Michael J. Frediani had served three years in prison in the late 90s for having "deviate sexual intercourse" with an 11 year old girl in Canandaigua, New York. Nor did he know that his coffee shop manager had been listed in New York as a class 3 offender, considered at high risk of committing new offenses. In Massachusetts, he is listed as a class 2 moderate risk of repeating his crime. On the other hand, Lively didn't run a criminal background check before making him responsible for the care of children. For his part, Frediani says he is a changed man, and a "minister of Jesus." But when approached by the Republican, he gave a false name, calling himself "Michael Free." (He also gave this alias to The Boston Globe when the paper recently profiled Lively.) He pleaded innocent to the charge of failure to register as sex offender.

For his part, Scott Lively told The Boston Globe that he too has changed and is now engaged in other things. But he has a long and ugly record to put behind him. Political Research Associates compiled selected quotes from a presentation "exposing the homosexuals' agenda" Lively gave to members the Ugandan Parliament in 2009. These include:

"The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on sexual conduct except the principle of mutual choice."

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/14/123140/078
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denem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 03:45 PM
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1. Yikes!
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skepticscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 03:58 PM
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2. Much better that the restrictions
on sexual conduct be based on the "law" set down by the tribal god of a gang of Bronze age desert dwellers. Or on the interpretation of that "law" by the most ignorant segment of human society.
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