Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris is going to court to try to void a ballot initiative that demands the shooting death of all gay people.
Earlier this month Christian activist and attorney Matt McLaughlin filed a proposal for a ballot initiative that would create a California law mandating the murder all gay people. The Sodomite Suppression Act calls homosexual sex “buggery,” and “sodomy,” and labels 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].”
It demands “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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McLaughlin, who had to pay only $200 to file his proposal, would have to get 365,000 legitimate California residents to sign up to support the Sodomite Suppression Act in order for it to move forward.
But today, calling McLaughlin’s Sodomite Suppression Act “patently unconstitutional” and “utterly reprehensible,” California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced she is going to court to seek the judicial authority to void the proposed ballot initiative.
“As Attorney General of California, it is my sworn duty to uphold the California and United States Constitutions and to protect the rights of all Californians,” Harris’ statement reads. “This proposal not only threatens public safety, it is patently unconstitutional, utterly reprehensible, and has no place in a civil society. Today, I am filing an action for declaratory relief with the Court seeking judicial authorization for relief from the duty to prepare and issue the title and summary for the ‘Sodomite Suppression Act.’ If the Court does not grant this relief, my office will be forced to issue a title and summary for a proposal that seeks to legalize discrimination and vigilantism.”
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Hat tip: Chris Geidner
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