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US Pastor to Ask Judge to Reject Uganda Anti-Gay Lawsuit
Source: Associated Press
US Pastor to Ask Judge to Reject Uganda Anti-Gay Lawsuit
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Nov 6, 2016, 2:12 PM ET
A Massachusetts evangelist will ask a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that accuses him of waging a long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda.
An East African gay advocacy group filed the lawsuit in 2012 against minister Scott Lively under a statute that allows non-citizens to file U.S. court actions for violations of international law.
Lively's Springfield church is known as Redemption Gate Mission Society. He has called the lawsuit "absurd" and "completely frivolous."
Lively said he has preached against homosexuality, but advised therapy, not punishment.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Nov 6, 2016, 2:12 PM ET
A Massachusetts evangelist will ask a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that accuses him of waging a long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda.
An East African gay advocacy group filed the lawsuit in 2012 against minister Scott Lively under a statute that allows non-citizens to file U.S. court actions for violations of international law.
Lively's Springfield church is known as Redemption Gate Mission Society. He has called the lawsuit "absurd" and "completely frivolous."
Lively said he has preached against homosexuality, but advised therapy, not punishment.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-pastor-judge-reject-uganda-anti-gay-lawsuit-43342057
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They also can't call themselves Christian either. 
