Last year, viciously anti-gay activist Scott Lively ran for governor in Massachusetts and even though he only managed to receive 19,000 votes, he still considered his run to be a “HUGE VICTORY.”

Seemingly bolstered by this showing, Lively announced today that he is considering running for Congress in a challenge to Democratic Rep. Richard Neal and intends to do so in order to stand in defense of Russia inside our government.

Lively has long been a vocal supporter of Russia’s harsh anti-gay crackdown, declaring the passage of anti-gay legislation in Russia to be “one of the proudest achievements of my career.“

So now he hopes to serve in Congress in order to speak out against the “anti-Russian propaganda” that is “robbing social conservatives of their most valuable potential alliance in the world today”: