Proposed California Ballot Measure Would Make Homosexuality a Capital Crime.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA, March 24, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) California attorney Matthew McLaughlin, Huntington Beach, CA., filed a proposed ballot measure on February 24, 2015, titled “The Sodomite Suppression Act” with the California Attorney General’s office. His request to punish homosexuals by death is making huge waves and creating a mass of controversy all over the nation.
As outlined in his proposal, “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.”
This act has many questioning if McLaughlin really did file the proposal but we have been able to obtain copies of the actual filing and the act as written by Matt Mclaughlin himself.
The request has ignited flames among the the state Legislature’s LGBT Caucus and they are asking the State Bar to review McLaughlin as they believe he’s violating the State Bar’s requirement that attorneys act in “good moral character.” Declaring it “better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath,” such a law would require that anyone who touches a person of someone of the same gender for “gendery” gratification be put to death by “bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.”
This allows him to start collecting the 365,000 signatures necessary to get the measure on an upcoming ballot.
If this was somehow achieved and makes its way onto a ballot it still could not be implemented because a federal judge declared in 2014 that California’s death penalty is unconstitutional.
As well as the challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court after a 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas that made same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory, and that decision cannot be overturned.
Troy Williams, the executive director of Equality Utah, said he saw a title about the bill but didn’t pay much attention to it because it just didn’t seem real. “This is clearly a message bill designed to stoke the fires of the worst impulses of humanity.” He goes on to further discuss how the nation, especially here in Utah is moving towards a greater acceptance, greater love and greater inclusion of the LGBT Americans.
“This individual is trying to bring us back to a darker period in American history where violence is acceptable against LGBT as well as minority communities,” said Williams.
Kent Frogley, president of the board for the Utah Pride center agrees. “This is a dying gasp of a losing movement and is laughable to a point where people don’t even think the proposal is real.”
Frogley further elaborates that this just draws attention to the craziness of the movement, so much that those who oppose the LGBT are now going to irrational lengths to try to suppress the strides our nation has seen in acceptance of all our LGBT communities.
