Feel the Love: Barbwire Blog Features "Christian" Columnist Who Backs Executing Gays

Christian extremist Philip Stallings

I find it beyond hypocrisy for American Christofascists to denigrate and mock ISIS's followers who harbor hatred of others much like that of the Christofascists themselves.  While most Christofascists do not condone the murder of nonbelievers as is being done by ISIS, there is a frightening element in the evangelical right that does indeed support the execution of nonbelievers.  Especially gays. As Right Wing Watch reports Matt Barber's blog "Barbwire" is showcasing a post about columnist Philip Stallings, a Christian Reconstructionist, who advo cates the execution of gays.  For those not in the know, Barber is the Assistant Dean at Liberty University's frightening school of law in Lynchburg, Virginia. Here are excerpts from Right Wing Watch:

Matt Barber’s website BarbWire has become quite the outlet for extremists. Today, BarbWire promotes as one of its “Top Stories” a column called “Repent! For the Kingdom of Sodom is At Hand.”  Columnist Philip Stallings bemoans growing support for LGBT equality among millennials, blaming it on “the public school system’s indoctrination of wickedness.” Stallings praises civil magistrates in North Carolina who have refused to issue marriage certificates to “sodomites.” And, of course, he cites the over-hyped controversy over subpoenas in Houston, and the Alliance Defense Fund’s concocted controversy about the “Hitching Post” wedding chapel business in Idaho to portray equality advocates as enemies of religious liberty:

When are we going to realize that this is war? There can be no doubt that the trend now is not only to bully and wreak havoc among Christians, but to lock up Pastors and anyone else that stands for the truth until God’s Law is eradicated from their mist. . . .

Stallings is identified on BarbWire as a “Political Theonomist.” That’s a term used by Christian Reconstructionists who believe government should be enforcing their interpretation of Old Testament law, like Gary North and Michelle Bachman mentor John Eidsmoe.

Turns out that’s exactly what Stallings believes. His Twitter feed links to a Christian radio show on which he spent nearly half an hour on August 25 arguing that the government should execute homosexuals – or “sodomites.”

It’s my position that the role of the state is morally obligated to obey God’s law…I am for lawful execution of the homosexual.

When the show’s surprised hosts pushed back and asked whether he would support other things called for in the Old Testament, like the stoning of rebellious children, Stallings said God commanded whole nations to be destroyed “all the way down to their children” and that the rebellious son in the Bible was “refusing their parents’ commandments and was openly rebellious in the community.”

And, yeah, I’m for what the Bible teaches in that regard, along with the murderer, and the rapist, and the kidnapper, and in this case the sodomite.

These folks are just as insane as the followers of ISIS.  They are a clear and present danger.