Putin's Puppet? Scott Lively Weighs Congressional Run

Scott Lively, the anti-gay pastor who will be tried for crimes against humanity for his involvement in Uganda's "kill the gays" law, announced that he may be running for congress to represent Massachusetts, and apparently Russia.

Fresh off a humiliating defeat in his run as an independent candidate for governor of Massachusetts, that placed him a distant fourth with less than 19,000 votes, Lively announced Friday that he was considering running for congress against Representative Richard Neal from the Bay State's first district.

"There are a number of reasons why I would pursue Congress rather than a state office, but one of them is my interest in foreign policy and concern about the disastrous actions of the Obama administration around the world." Lively said Friday on the reactionary news outlet Barb Wire. "I am especially concerned that the Neoconservatives (read Republican liberals) have aligned with the Obama administration re Russia and are jointly waging a campaign of anti-Russian propaganda designed to�deceive conservatives into�supporting a hot war with Russia."

Touting his belief that American and Russian conservatives would be working together to "roll back liberalism around the world," Lively praised Russian despot Vladimir Putin's government. "Is there any other 'first world' nation standing up against the homosexual agenda like Russia is doing?" he asked.

Friday's announcement by Lively is the latest chapter in his ongoing love affair with Putin's Russia.

Lively has proudly claimed responsibility for helping Russia pass its "homosexual propaganda" law. "Yes, I think I influenced the Russian law," Lively told NBC News. He further suggested to NBC that Russian officials foil gay activists planning to rainbow-bomb the 2014 Olympic games in Sochi by flying a rainbow banner over the games so "the global homosexual movement" would be reminded that "the rainbow belongs to God!"

In 2013, a federal U.S. judge ruled the case filed by a Ugandan LGBT advocacy group against Lively, for his collaboration with religious and government officials in Uganda that led to the introduction of the African nation's "Kill the Gays" bill, will be allowed to proceed. This marked the first ruling by a federal U.S. judge calling the persecution of LGBT persons a crime against humanity, possibly setting a precedent for the human rights of sexual minorities will be protected under international law.

If he decides to run, it will be the controversial pastor's latest attempt for public office. In 2014, he unsuccessfully ran as an independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts promising to defend the unborn, de-fund the "gay agenda," deport illegals, support the second amendment. His message resonated with 0.89% of the electorate.

Lively is co-author of the 1995 universally debunked tome "The Pink Swastika," which, according to author notes, asserts that "the Nazi Party was conceived, organized and controlled throughout its short history by masculine-oriented male homosexuals who hid their sexual proclivities from the public, in part by publicly persecuting one group of their political enemies: out-of-the-closet effeminate-oriented homosexuals aligned with the German Communist Party."