re: Pastor being sued for anti gay stance here in the US.

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US dollars are being used and private funds are being used from US based groups!

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:omg:
People spending their own money on things! How dare they!

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Lively is best known for his role, reported first here on BTB, as featured speaker at an anti-gay conference held in Kampala in March 2009. During that conference, Lively touted his book, The Pink Swastika, in which he claimed that gays were responsible for founding the Nazi Party and running the gas chambers in the Holocaust.

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This just confuses me. This would be like saying that the KKK was founded by black people.
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

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Judge Ponsor holds that Pastor Lively, who visited Uganda twice in 2002 and then not again until 2009, could be regarded as a "co-conspirator" with a member of the Ugandan legislature who introduced proposed legislation against homosexual behavior (the bill never passed).

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To be fair, you don't have to physically be somewhere to do what they are accusing him of. Still a BS lawsuit IMO (from what I've read), but the number of visits is sorta irrelevant.

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Have you read, at minimum, the first 15 pages of the opinion? If you haven't, you should do so before getting too aggressive about what, exactly, he's being accused of doing.

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Josh, could you please do a summary or link to it. I'm just curious because it sounds like there is more to this than simply "This guy hates gays therefore let's sue him". But I could be wrong. I just don't see a judge allowing a suit through based on apparent actions in a foreign country in which all he would have done is basically assist in making anti-gay laws which the country was already known for. While the laws may be BS I just don't see how the case could have made it to court, especially in the US (would make a bit more sense in Uganda, but would still be a weird lawsuit to have)