Earlier this month, anti-LGBT activist Mike Heath of MaineResistance interviewed fellow extremist Religious Right activist Scott Lively, who continued to heap praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin for his crackdown on LGBT rights and hoped that, under a President Trump, similar anti-gay laws could be enacted in America.

Lively, who has called the passage of laws banning the spread of gay “propaganda” in Russia “one of the proudest achievements of my career” and urged the implementation of similar bans all over the world, voiced his hope that President Trump would “delegate to the church the task of shaping the culture.”

“I wish we would be able to duplicate that all over the world,” Lively said of passing Russian-style anti-gay laws. “That would really solve the problem.”

“Frankly, if Trump wins in November,” he stated, “then he could turn out to be like Putin in Russia and push back Marxism like Putin did and invite the church to come back in an guide the culture, like Putin did. He delegates, that’s his way of governing and his way of doing business and I think he is going to delegate to the church the task of shaping the culture.”

“The culture war has always been a battle between cultural Marxists and Christians, always, especially homosexuals among the cultural Marxists,” Lively continued, “and [Trump is] pushing the cultural Marxists back and that’s his primary target, political correctness, you know, the whole slate of the hard left agenda, he’s just pushing back. And that’s going to create a vacuum that the church is naturally going to fill because we’re the ones who were guiding the culture before the Marxists took it away from us.”