An anti-LBGT attorney and pastor who said gay men spurred the Holocaust will run against Massachusetts’ incumbent governor in the state’s Republican primary.
Scott Lively received the support of 626 of the more than 2,000 delegates at the Massachusetts Republican Party Convention last month, almost double the amount he needed to be listed on the ballot.
Lively is the author of a 1995 book titled “The Pink Swastika,” in which he claimed that the Holocaust was coordinated by gay men who ran the Nazi Party.
He is the founder of an anti-LGBT group, Abiding Truth Ministries, which is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
He will face Republican Gov. Charlie Baker in the September 4 primary, as long as he collects the necessary 10,000 voter signatures seeded for ballot certification, Mass Live reported. He ran as an Independent against Baker in 2014.
— JTA
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