Even this guy knows that's crazy
You can go to snopes if you want but
this, sadly,
is very true.
An Orange County, Calif., attorney has filed a proposed ballot measure with the California Attorney General’s office asking voters to criminalize homosexuality in the state and impose a death penalty sentence.
The filing, submitted along with the required fee of $200, will allow attorney Matthew G. McLaughlin to begin the process of collecting the approximately 365,000 signatures needed to put the measure before California voters on an upcoming ballot, reports Raw Story.
There are other insane tidbits in the filing—things like one million dollar fines and bullet executions. You can read his filing as a pdf,
here. It will make you angry and sad but, alternately it may make you laugh.
You get classic bigoted terms from yesteryear, plus bonus terms and phrases you may have never even thought you would ever hear like:
- "Buggery"
- "Sodomistic propaganda"
- "Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than thatall of us should be killed by God's just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating-wickedness in our midst."
He references Sodom and Gomorrha which, as we all know, is God's great victory over homosexuality—such a decisive victory that there has been no homosexuality ever since, unabated, forever. The lgbtnation article goes on to say [bold my emphasis]:
Little is known about the petitioner or if his filing is on behalf of a client.
The filing indicates McLaughlin is an attorney from Huntington Beach, Calif., and records at the State Bar of California show that McLaughlin is on active status and licensed to practice law in the state.
Here are a few things I believe we may
know about Mr. McLaughlin:
- He's probably not fun to have around at dinner.
- He's super homophobic–pathologically so
- He reads the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible
It's not going to happen. But he will get some signatures.