GOP Candidate for Texas Governor Citing ‘Biblical Law’ Says He Would ‘Gladly’ Kill the Gays
Republican Says ‘I’d Gladly Execute a Convicted Adulterer, Sodomite or Bestialiter’
The Republican 2018 gubernatorial primary in Texas is going to be challenging. GOP Governor Greg Abbott will be campaigning to retain is seat (he announced nearly a year ago he would be running). Abbott will be challenged by a Republican who just last week, citing biblical law, announced he would “gladly” execute gay people.
Two Democrats, Lupe Valdez and Jeffrey Payne, are also running to become governor of Texas. They both happen to be gay.
John Wright at Outsmart magazine reports Larry SECEDE Kilgore (yes, that’s his name) “apparently believes Valdez, Payne and other ‘sodomites’ should be put to death.”
Wright points to a tweet posted to Kilgore’s Twitter account, which says, “I’d gladly execute a convicted adulterer, sodomite or bestialiter. Biblical law is a blessin.”
That tweet has since been taken down, but there is a Google cache of it. Here’s a screenshot:
(Not that we’d expect Kilgore would be a stickler for detail, but it’s the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that calls for the death penalty for homosexuality.)
“When he previously ran for governor in 2014,” Wright notes, “Kilgore told me that while he supports the death penalty as punishment for homosexuality, he planned to put the issue aside so he could focus on advocating for secession.”
It’s unclear if Kilgore deleted the tweet himself, or if Twitter took it down or ordered him to.
Parents of LGBTQ children and teens in Texas next year might want to ensure their kids are protected from or supported in what may prove to be a damaging environment for them, given that two candidates are gay and another has said he would gladly “execute” them.
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