Extremist anti-LGBTQ activist Scott Lively recently posted a column on his website in which he bizarrely redefined the meaning of the term “anti-Semitism,” alleging that criticism of conservative Christians is anti-Semitism. As a result, liberal American Jews who are critical of the Religious Right, according to Lively, are pushing anti-Semitism.

As Lively sees it, “Semite” does not refer only to Jews, but also to conservative Christians, claiming that the term is really a “religious designation, delineating the followers of Jehovah … By my analysis, a ‘Semite’ cannot therefore be defined by DNA, but only by loyalty to God, and must include both Jews and Christians who are faithful to the principles of His Torah, while excluding those who aren’t.”

Using this definition that he unilaterally made up, Lively attacked liberal American Jews for supporting the Southern Poverty Law Center, which he asserts is practicing “anti-Semitism” by criticizing right-wing and Religious Right organizations and individuals who espouse viciously anti-LGBTQ views and by associating itself “with the militant defense of homosexual sodomy and the rejection of God and sexual normalcy”: