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Lively received 626 votes from the over 2000 delegates gathered at the April 28 convention in Worcester 鈥� double the 15 percent threshold needed to appear on the September ballot against incumbent Charlie Baker. Lively ran unsuccessfully as an independent against Baker , getting almost 20,000 votes, or .

, before Lively can go head-to-head with Baker in the state鈥檚 Republican primary Sept. 4, he must collect 10,000 voter signatures for ballot certification. In a newsletter via the Committee to Elect Scott Lively, he that his campaign is taking an 鈥渁ll hands on deck鈥� approach with regard to getting signatures. He said he has already collected at least 10,250 but is looking to get 3,000-5,000 more to serve as a buffer in case some are disqualified.

鈥淲e鈥檙e concerned that 鈥楥harlie the Cheat鈥� Baker may twist arms at the Secretary of State鈥檚 office to disqualify certified signatures after they are turned in,鈥� the newsletter said.

尝颈惫别濒测鈥檚 is littered with conspiracy theories and anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT rhetoric. If elected, he says he will work to pass a ban on 鈥渢he promotion of non-traditional lifestyles to minors鈥� and that the 鈥淟GBT agenda鈥� should be restricted from public life.

He claims that 鈥減olitical elites鈥� have 鈥渙rchestrated this sudden wave of 鈥榬efugees鈥�,鈥� refers to undocumented immigrants as 鈥渋llegals鈥� and says that they need to 鈥渢ake all that they have learned about living in an orderly democratic society back to their homelands so they can recreate there what they have enjoyed here.鈥�

With regard to abortion, , he will make his first public policy act an executive order that will recognize the 鈥渓egal personp-hood [sic] of the unborn,鈥� and he will task every authority 鈥� including the state police 鈥� to implement and enforce the order. If necessary, he says, he will 鈥渃reate a constitutional crisis鈥� that will force the issue to the Supreme Court and overturn Roe v. Wade . He also supports the death penalty for 鈥渟erial abortionists.鈥�

Lively also says on his campaign website that he stands with anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders (who was banned for months from Britain over concerns his views would trigger violence) and posts the transcript from one of Wilder鈥檚 2014 speeches.

Lively is perhaps best known for his virulent anti-LGBT conspiracy theories about the so-called 鈥済ay agenda鈥� and for his 1996 book, The Pink Swastika, that claimed the Nazi Party was made up of gay men who orchestrated the Holocaust. Historians have roundly refuted the book .

Lively has also repeatedly vilified LGBT people as 鈥減erverts,鈥� 鈥渄eviants鈥� and 鈥渄angerous,鈥� and equated homosexuality with pedophilia. His other books, like the 1997 Poisoned Stream, claims that homosexuality is a 鈥渄ark force鈥� throughout human history.

In 2012, he was sued in federal court for human rights violations under the alien tort statute by the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of a Ugandan LGBT advocacy group.

The lawsuit alleged that 尝颈惫别濒测鈥檚 anti-LGBT rhetoric and actions in Uganda led to the persecution of LGBT people in that country. The lawsuit 鈥� the first known Alien Tort Statute case seeking accountability for persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity 鈥� was dismissed in 2017 on a technicality, but the ruling by a judge affirmed that Lively aided and abetted anti-LGBT persecution and that he had violated international law.

The 25-page ruling excoriated Lively and his anti-LGBT activities, stating that the 鈥淒efendant鈥檚 position on LGBTI people range from the ludicrous to the abhorrent,鈥� and that 鈥渉e has tried to make gay people the scapegoats for practically all of humanity鈥檚 ills.鈥� The 鈥渃rackpot bigotry could be brushed aside as pathetic,鈥� the judge continued, 鈥渆xcept for the terrible harm it can cause.鈥� (The ruling by 尝颈惫别濒测鈥檚 attorneys with anti-LGBT hate group Liberty Counsel in an attempt to strike the judge鈥檚 language.)

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