REDEEMING THE RAINBOW

A Letter to the Lithuanian People (2007)I am Dr. Scott Lively, an American attorney and President of Defend the Family International,a human rights NGO. I hold a Doctor of Law and a Doctor of Theology, as well as specialcredentials in International Human Rights. I am the author of the Riga Declaration on ReligiousFreedom, Family Values and Human Rights (see http://www.defendthefamily.com/intl/), and aninternational lecturer on these topics.I came to Lithuania to warn the Lithuanian people about the threat posed to your society bythe global homosexual political movement, which has begun to organize in your nation. At theoutset, let me say that I advocate a high tolerance for the people who define themselves by their choiceof a homosexual lifestyle, even while I promote a low tolerance for homosexual conduct. Homosexualactivists would have you believe that tolerance for them requires total acceptance and approval oftheir lifestyle, but that is not obligatory, nor prudent. In fact, discrimination against homosexualbehavior is necessary to protect your society from the consequences of “gay” culture, which alwayspushes for greater and greater liberalism in sexual attitudes, especially among young people. To seethe danger of this we need look no further than Holland, where sexual liberalism promoted by thehomosexual movement has led to the creation of a pedophile political party, whose right to hold seatsin parliament, to advocate for the legalization of adult/child sexual relationships, has been approvedby the Dutch courts.We should not, however, discriminate against persons who define themselves as homosexuals.They should be free to label themselves as they choose, no less so than other groups whose beliefs orgoals are disapproved by the majority. Indeed, we can compare homosexuals to their chief adversaries,the radical nationalists. Both groups hate each other, and would like to do away with the other.Neither side is embraced by the majority, but both deserve the right to freedom of their beliefs andto freedom of speech within reasonable limits. The rest of us must be willing to tolerate thesedifficult neighbors to preserve civility for society as a whole.The chief danger of the homosexual movement is that it always seeks to take away thefreedom of speech from anyone who disapproves of homosexuality. In Canada, where homosexualactivism has enjoyed considerable success, there are now so-called Human Rights Tribunals whichhave the power to punish anyone who publicly opposes homosexuality by making the offender pay amonetary fine. The money is then given to the homosexual who filed the complaint. The mostrecent incident involved a Catholic member of the City Council of Kamloops, British Columbia. Hisoffence was to call homosexuality “unnatural.” One wonders if Pope Benedict himself would facearrest in Canada, since he has repeatedly affirmed that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered.”Religious opinions are also silenced wherever homosexuals gain the power to silence them.Consider a recent case from Sweden. On June 29, 2004, Pastor Ake Green was sentenced to onemonth in jail for showing “disrespect” against homosexuals in the sermon he delivered in his pulpit inBorgholm. The title of his sermon was “Are people born with homosexual orientation or is it theresult of influence by evil powers?” Pastor Green was eventually exonerated by the Swedish SupremeCourt, but only over the vigorous objection of the “gay” activists in that nation (would the result havebeen the same if the judges were “gay”?).Just this week In Britain, the House of Lords approved a bill to prohibit private Christianschools from teaching their students that homosexuality is wrong.Redeeming the Rainbow 161