Arrested: Scott Lively’s Coffee House Manager, Convicted Sex Offender
Cross-posted from The Lavender Newswire
For those fortunate enough not to know of Scott Lively, he is the “former director of the California tentacle of the American Family Association and the anti-gay Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA)” and pastor of Abiding Truth Ministries “[a.k.a. Defend the Family]” — named to the SPLC’s latest list of anti-gay hate groups — “author of The Pink Swastika: Homosexuals and the Nazi Party, and Holocaust revisionist,” who is almost singularly responsible for fomenting the raging homophobia pervading Latvia and primarily responsible for inspiring Uganda’s Kill-the-Gays bill.
Today, JMG tells us:
Police have arrested a convicted child molester working at the Springfield, Massachusetts coffeehouse of infamous anti-gay activist Scott Lively, who runs the business as a Christian outreach to local teenagers. …Frediani was convicted in New York in 1995 for “deviate sexual intercourse” with the ten year-old child. Upon his arrest in Springfield, he described himself as a “minister of Jesus.” Last week Lively’s coffeehouse was raided by public school truant officers, who accused Lively of allowing students to ditch school there. According to my tipster, students were offered free coffee and hot chocolate in return for wearing one of Lively’s Jesus pins.
More at the link.
See also:
“Police arrest manager of Holy Grounds Coffee House — operated by anti-gay pastor Scott Lively — as unregistered sex offender,” The Republican, January 13, 2011
“Pastor Scott Lively of Holy Grounds Coffee House says he did not know his manager is a convicted sex offender,” The Republican, January 13, 2011
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