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By Charundi Panagoda and Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (IPS) – A major U.S. civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts Wednesday on behalf of a Ugandan gay rights organisation, the Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG), against a right-wing evangelist leader for inciting hatred against homosexuals that has led to increased violence against LGBT persons in the East African country. The lawsuit was filed by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in the home state of Scott Lively, the defendant, who heads the Abiding Truth Ministries, a fundamentalist Christian group. He is also the author of “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party”, a 1995 … Continue reading →