In a recent interview, Christian
conservative Scott Lively praised Russian President Vladimir Putin's
opposition to LGBT rights, and hoped the U.S. would follow if Donald
Trump is elected president.
Lively, founder of Abiding Truth
Ministries and a failed Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, made
his comments in an interview with Mike Heath of MaineResistance,
which is opposed to LGBT rights.
“I wish we would be able to duplicate
that all over the world,” Lively said of a Russian law that
prohibits the promotion of “gay propaganda” to minors. “That
would really solve the problem.”
“Frankly, if Trump wins in November,
then he could turn out to be like Putin in Russia and push back
Marxism like Putin did and invite the church to come back in and
guide the culture, like Putin did. He delegates, that's his way of
governing and his way of doing business and I think he is going to
delegate to the church the task of shaping the culture,” Lively
said.
“The culture war has always been a
battle between cultural Marxists and Christians, always, especially
homosexuals among the cultural Marxists, and [Trump is] pushing the
cultural Marxists back and that's his primary target, political
correctness, you know, the whole slate of the hard left agenda, he's
just pushing back. And that's going to create a vacuum that the
church is naturally going to fill because we're the ones who were
guiding the culture before the Marxists took it away from us,” he
added.