Brody's Notes... Anti-Gay Pastor Scott Lively Issues "Feeble, Callous Statement-" Offers Bizarre Theory Of David Kato's Murder

Scott Lively  Photo By The Boston Globe

By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) JAN 28 | In what the Boston Globe has termed a "feeble, callous statement," notoriously anti-gay pastor Scott Lively offered his bizarre theory on the murder of Ugandan Gay rights activist David Kato:

"Ugandan homosexual activist David Cato was murdered yesterday in his home. To my knowledge, no one has been arrested for the crime so the motive at this time is purely a matter of conjecture. CNN is reporting that money and clothing had been stolen from his house, which would suggest a run-of-the-mill criminal intent. There is also the possibility that he was killed by a “gay” lover, as was the case with another homosexual activist two weeks ago in New York. Carlos Castro was castrated with a corkscrew by his boyfriend and bled to death in his hotel room."

Lively goes on to say:

"I caution the media against assuming Cato’s murder was a hate crime, Some homosexual activists and journalists rushed to judge another Ugandan gay murder as a hate crime in June 2010, only to sheepishly retract that claim when the murder turned out to be the work of pagan witch doctors involved in a bizarre occult ritual."

Boston Globe reporter Rob Anderson writes:

"The killing is still being investigated, but gay rights activists in Uganda have connected Kato's murder to the anti-gay climate fostered by a trip there by Lively and other American preachers in 2009. “David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S. evangelicals in 2009,” said Val Kalende, the chairwoman of one of Uganda’s gay rights groups. “The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood.”

According to LGBTQ Equality Rights activists in Uganda and abroad,  Lively and the other U.S. evangelical preachers who accompanied him on that 2009 trip, were keynote speakers at an alleged Christian conference and spoke condemning homosexuality.  Gay rights activists say their words galvanized an ugly anti-gay sentiment, and after that event, during which Lively argued that homosexuality "will lead to social chaos and destruction," the Ugandan government drew up legislation allowing for the execution of gay people.
Editor-In-Chief of the LGBTQ website Box Turtle Bulletin, Jim Burroway, who has been following the story since 2009 said today:

Police are attributing David Kato’s murder to robbery. We've seen it often enough elsewhere in Europe and America where local authorities are loathe to investigate hate crimes. The mere fact that items are missing doesn't mean that a hate crime did not occur. If a homophobe is burning a gay man to death, for example, why not take a watch as a trophy and money to party with later? Yet that’s often enough for police to quickly try to eliminate the stigma of a hate crime in the local community. If police in this country are very resistant to investigate crimes as hate crime even when the evidence for those charges are overwhelming, how can we expect anything different in Uganda?

Uguandan NTV Coverage:
Uganda police are working overdrive to tighten lose ends in the murder of a gay rights activist in the outskirts of Kampala. David Kato Kisule, was found murdered at his home in Mukono district, in an incident police have attributed to robbery.