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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSodomite Suppression Act
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/good-christian-man-pays-200-ballot...California, where a Christian activist paid a $200 to file a ballot initiative with the Attorney General in Sacramento. He proposed a "Sodomite Suppression Act," which, among other things, requires that all gay people in California be executed by firing squad.
The man, Matthew McLaughlin, wants nothing more than to save us, you see: McLaughlin is convinced that God's wrath will be visited upon all of us, so he wants to spare us this by having all the gay citizenry of California executed.
It's "better," McLaughlin said, that non-gay Christians kill gay people rather than everyone have to suffer God's punishment. McLaughlin called gay sex "buggery," and "sodomy," and labeled it "a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha [sic]." From the bill:
"Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God's just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating-wickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method."
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Sodomite Suppression Act (Original Post)
lame54
Mar 2015
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RKP5637
(67,105 posts)1. I hope someone is watching this guy, he has some really serious issues
going on in his head!
thecrow
(5,519 posts)2. Maybe, as he is basically calling for the mass execution of others,
this man should be encouraged to shoot himself
instead of others. Golden Rule and all that.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)3. Wouldn't you have to suspend the 4th Amendment to enforce it?/NT
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)4. This is just the kind of sort who
end up carrying out their own so-called Justice. I hope he is watched carefully before someone gets hurt or worse. Scary ...