NEW YORK: LGBT Lawyers Sue Pastor for "Crime Against Humanity"
NEW YORK: LGBT Lawyers Sue Pastor for "Crime Against Humanity"
By Wendy Wright
http://www.c-fam.org/
April 27, 2012
A law firm known for publicity-seeking tactics is suing an American minister in U.S. Federal Court because he criticized homosexuality in Uganda.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) says pastor and attorney Scott Lively committed "persecution," a "crime against humanity" as defined in the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court.
CRR filed the case in the U.S. on behalf of a Ugandan advocacy group called Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and are using the Alien Tort Claims Act, an old and very controversial U.S. statute that allows foreigners to sue in U.S. court for violations of international law committed outside the U.S.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Wendy Wright
http://www.c-fam.org/
April 27, 2012
A law firm known for publicity-seeking tactics is suing an American minister in U.S. Federal Court because he criticized homosexuality in Uganda.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) says pastor and attorney Scott Lively committed "persecution," a "crime against humanity" as defined in the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court.
CRR filed the case in the U.S. on behalf of a Ugandan advocacy group called Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and are using the Alien Tort Claims Act, an old and very controversial U.S. statute that allows foreigners to sue in U.S. court for violations of international law committed outside the U.S.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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