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TexasTowelie

(113,300 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 01:29 AM Mar 2015

California May Vote Next Year On Putting Gays 'To Death By Bullets To The Head' [View all]

If you thought Prop 8 was outrageous, you may find this proposed ballot initiative to be totally insane.

Earlier this month, Christian anti-gay activist Matt McLaughlin took advantage of California's extremely lenient policy on ballot initiatives by filing papers to have residents vote on his Sodomite Suppression Act. If you're wondering if that is what it sounds like, it is.

"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 measure reads, "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."

Yes, you read that right.

Matt McLaughlin, who is also an attorney, would like the people of California to vote on whether or not they want a law to "put to death by bullets to the head" all gay people or "any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification."

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/forget_prop_8_california_may_soon_be_voting_on_putting_gays_to_death_by_bullets_to_the_head

Cross-posted in the California Group.
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