A local chapter of a
California conservative group has invited a controversial
antigay leader to speak at an upcoming meeting. The
Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly asked Scott Lively, whose
work maintains that the Nazis were gay-friendly, to address its
members in Riverside County.
The initial meeting,
scheduled for April 3 at the Temeku Hills Golf Course and
Country Club, was canceled by the venue on Tuesday after
threats of demonstrations against Lively.
Assembly president Bob
Kowell told the
Press-Enterprise
that the group still intends to host Lively, at a location to
be determined, perhaps privately.
Lively, a former
Temecula resident who now lives in Massachusetts,
founded the antigay group Abiding Truth Ministries, which is
listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He
is the coauthor of the book
The Pink Swastika
, which argues, against known historical facts, that gay people
held privileged positions in the Third Reich.