A California man has paid $200 to file a ballot initiative that, if passed, would mandate for all gay people to die by firing squad, rather than risk god’s wrath.
A Christian activist would like to see all gay people in California executed by firing squad, just so the rest of the citizenry can avoid having to endure God’s “wrath.” Matt McLaughlin last week paid $200 to file a ballot initiative with the Attorney General in Sacramento that proposes his Sodomite Suppression Act become law.Â
McLaughlin 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].”
He says that it’s “better” that non-gay Californians kill the gays rather than have to suffer God’s punishment.
“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.”
McLaughlin does not state if minors – say, high school students – would be treated as adults and included in the execution mandate.
The Sodomite Suppression Act (note it’s not the “Sodomy” Suppression Act, a clear indication that it’s LGBT people, not just homosexual sex that McLaughlin takes issue with) also calls for a one million dollar fine for each act of transmitting, distributing, or performing “sodomistic propaganda” to minors.Â
And McLaughlin’s bill would make it illegal for any gay person to hold public office, be employed by the state, or be granted any benefits, such as welfare, social security, or use any public assets, such as roads.
McLaughlin will have to get 365,000 legitimate California residents to sign up to support the Sodomite Suppression Act in order for it to move forward.
Wonkette has done its research and says that McLaughlin is likely the same person who in 2004 attempted to get the Bible in curriculum studies in public schools, an effort that would probably have been unconstitutional and cost the state about $200 million.
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This article has been updated to accurately reflect the name on the filing as Matt McLaughlin, not Matthew McLaughlin.
Image:17th Century firing squad re-enactment
Photo by cenz via Flickr and a CC license
Hat tip:Â Joe Jervis