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After graduating from high school in 1976, Lively spent the next 10 years "drifting around the United States, often homeless, sometimes sleeping under bridges and begging for spare change on street-corners." Lively has stated in his autobiography: "I visited every one of the 48 continental states and logged over 25,000 miles by thumb, bus and train in my wandering. When Lively was 16, his father was committed to a mental institution, never to return. He became an alcoholic at the age of 12, an addiction he explains as a means to cope with an unhappy family situation. Lively was born and raised in the town of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, the oldest of six children. 3.5 Lawsuit by Sexual Minorities Uganda v Scott Lively.3.4 Anti-homosexuality activism in Uganda.3.3 Anti-homosexuality activism in Latvia and Russia.3.2 Anti-homosexuality activism in the United States.
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Widely credited as an engineer of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014, he gave a series of talks to Ugandan lawmakers before the drafting of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. He has called for the criminalization of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" as far back as 2007. In 1995, he co-authored The Pink Swastika, a book claiming gay people were prominent in the Nazi Party and were behind Nazi atrocities. Lively has been involved in the ex-gay movement and has staunchly opposed LGBT rights. He unsuccessfully attempted to be elected as the governor of Massachusetts in both 20. He was also a cofounder of Latvia-based group Watchmen on the Walls, state director of the California branch of the American Family Association, and a spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance. Scott Douglas Lively (born December 14, 1957) is an American activist, author, and attorney, who is the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, an anti-LGBT group based in Temecula, California.