Matt McLaughlin, a lawyer in Huntington Beach, Calif., wants to pass legislation to execute gay people and fine or imprison anyone who supports gay rights. The proposal would allow the killing of the Golden State’s gay and lesbian residents based solely on their sexuality. According to the Guardian, the initiative in question is titled the “Sodomite Suppression Act.”
The so-called “shoot the gays” proposal would mandate “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, a lawyer since 1998, declared in his proposal that it is “better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath”.
The initiative would also make it a crime to support gay rights, punishable by a $1m fine, up to 10 years in prison and expulsion from the state. It would be illegal to distribute “sodomistic propaganda” to “any person under the age of majority”. Being a “sodomite” or distributing “sodomistic propaganda” would disqualify a resident from serving in public office or public employment and from enjoying any public benefit.
This isn’t the first time McLaughlin has tried to pass controversial legislation. Back in 2004, the attorney tried getting California public schools to include the King James Bible as a textbook in the curriculum. At the time, he said it wasn’t an attempt to indoctrinate students, and he then defended the book as “good literature” that contains “rich usage of the English language.”
(Source: The Guardian)