Posted on 03/21/2015 12:13:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A ballot proposal criminalizing sodomy and allowing the death penalty for anyone who “touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification” is moving forward because constitutionally, there is really no way to stop it, despite the neo-Nazi nature of the proposed law.
Huntington Beach attorney Matt McLaughlin filed papers to begin gathering signatures for the ballot measure, the “Sodomite Suppression Act” on February 26th.
In California’s “direct democracy” any citizen can follow procedures to propose just about any law. That doesn’t mean that any law could pass, and even if passed, it doesn’t mean that any law could actually go into effect. Even laws passed by a majority of California voters may been overturned by judicial review, as was the case in the Prop. 8 gay marriage debate.
This latest initiative is creating news not because of what it would do if passed but because of the fact that it, so far, cannot be stopped at this stage.
Along with the required $200 fee, McLaughlin’s letter asking for certification of his initative, sent to the coordinator for Attorney General Kamala Harris, includes some bizarre language: “The abominable crime against nature known as buggery, called also sodomy, is 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.”
McLaughlin’s ballot proposal continues, stating, “…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.”
Harris’ office may actually be legally required to write a title and summary of the legislation, allowing signature gatherers to stand in front of shopping malls and grocery stores inviting patrons to sign a petition to put a death sentence for gays on the statewide ballot.
The Sacramento Bee reports that the Legislature’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus has now written a letter to the State Bar calling into question McLaughlin’s fitness to practice law.
A petition to take away his law license already has over 6,000 signers.
While submitting a ballot proposal costs just $200, the preparation of the proposal by the state can cost about $8,000.
Oh great. Every moonbat in the country is going to try and taint the entire conservative movement with this lunatic fringe idiocy.
Will Gays counter this Ballot Initiative with their own , Ben Dover Right Now Initiative ,LOL
The measure is surely authored by a vicious gay activist seeking to suggest that any person uncomfortable with some aspects of homosexuality is a violent fundamentalist.
The left pulls stunts like this alll the time...
Monkey Wrench in the Gears Tactic.
I like it.
The Muslims will support it.
How about:
To atone for their homophobic crimes ALL straight people must parade their nude children through The Castro District and leave them there in an interior decorating show room.
????
Agreed.
Agreed.
Yep, and some Freeper pharisees will fall for it hook, line and sinker......
They state should increase the number of signatures needed for a ballot initiative.
As for this measure, put on the ballot, if it qualifies, and show that conservatives are indeed Pro Life, even for gays.
As the pendulum of our popular culture swings from one extreme to the other.
Considering that the Supreme Court struck down remaining sodomy laws in 2003, I don’t see how this can be put on the ballot.
Since, based on the court ruling, we have a constitutional right to engage in any sex activity with any consenting adult, I don’t see how the attorney general of California could certify such an initiative to be put up to a vote of the people.
To confused leftist idiots like Brandon Mercer, anything that they don't like must be inspired by "neo-Nazis".
A more apt formulation would be "despite the Muslim fundamentalist nature of the proposed law".
But for fools like Mercer, Muslims are "victims" and so telling the truth about them is "racist" and therefore forbidden.
As I said earlier, this looks like a dirty trick of the left to me. This lawyer works out of a post office box to pull off this stunt. If he was an honest dunce, then why wouldn’t he do this out in the open?
Just an excuse to fan hatred of Vast Right Wing Fundamentalists.
Even if you agree with the sentiment, this is a BAD idea. Think of it. You are do this touching for sexual gratification thing . Knowing that you might face the death penalty, you are better off killing the victim, thereby eliminating a witness. You are better off, certainly no worse off, by killing them.
That’s probably correct- there are folks on the net trying to track this guy down and he’s...slippery. The following is interesting reading...
http://wonkette.com/577984/secret-agent-lawyer-files-ca-ballot-initiative-to-put-sodomites-to-death
Is there a petition to ignore calls to revoke his license? There ought to be. The man's just exercising his constitutional right to petition government to make changes in the law; namely, to not charge people for killing gays. We may not like it. We may be disgusted by it. But surely he has the right to argue for any change he'd like to see. He's not out there killing people. And won't, I take it, until it's legalized (which it never will be).
The pendulum position was just fine right at the center of its swing, with no abortion, limited Constitutional government, individual property rights and federalism... and then starting about 100 years ago, the left grabed the line, and putsch the pendulum all the way to the left side.
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