Christian Activist Files California Ballot Measure For Executing All Homosexuals

While the "godly folk" have been going to great lengths to condemn the atrocities being committed by ISIS and argued that Christianity has never led to such horrors, one Christofacist activist in California has helped to underscore that the differences between ISIS and Christofascists in reality is only a matter of to what degree they will engage in widespread violence and murder.  When it comes to extremist dogma and putting unreasoning faith in the writings of ignorant individuals (or, in the case of Mohammed, someone who belonged in a mental ward), there really is little difference otherwise.  Here are highlights from the New Civil Rights Movement:

A Christian activist would like to see all gay people in California executed by firing squad, just so the rest of the citizenry can avoid having to endure God's "wrath." Matthew McLaughlin last week paid $200 to file a ballot initiative with the Attorney General in Sacramento that proposes his Sodomite Suppression Act become law.

McLaughlin calls homosexual sex "buggery," and "sodomy," and labels it "a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha [sic]."

He says that it's "better" that non-gay Californians kill the gays rather than have to suffer God's punishment.

"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 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."

McLaughlin does not state if minors – say, high school students – would be treated as adults and included in the execution mandate.

And McLaughlin's bill would make it illegal for any gay person to hold public office, be employed by the state, or be granted any benefits, such as welfare, social security, or use any public assets, such as roads.

McLaughlin will have to get 365,000 legitimate California residents to sign up to support the Sodomite Suppression Act in order for it to move forward.

Wonkette has done its research and says that McLaughlin is likely the same person who in 2004 attempted to get the Bible in curriculum studies in public schools, an effort that would probably have been unconstitutional and cost the state about $200 million.

It's not without reason that I refer to folks like McLaughlin as the Christian Taliban.  Perhaps the term needs to be updated to the "Christian ISIS."