It is hard to believe people are still so against the gay and lesbian community and their existence. I mean, did you know there is currently a “proposed ballot measure that would authorise killing gays and lesbians in California”?

The Sodomite Suppression Act, as it is called, was put forward by Matthew McLaughlin, a Huntington Beach attorney.

The ballot initiative would authorize the killing of gays and lesbians by “bullets to the head” — or by “any other convenient method”.

McLaughlin’s idea “calls same-sex intimacy a ‘monstrous evil’ and says it would be better for gay people to die than for Californians to ‘be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating wickedness in our midst'”.

It cost the attorney a mere $200 to submit the act to the state attorney general’s office, and, thank goodness, Attorney General Kamala Harris is doing everything in her power to stop the act from moving any further forward. The good news is that the chances of it ever getting approved are incredibly slim.

This proposal not only threatens public safety, it is patently unconstitutional, utterly reprehensible and has no place in a civil society. Today, I am filing an action for declaratory relief with the [Sacramento County Superior] Court seeking judicial authorization for relief from the duty to prepare and issue the title and summary for the ‘Sodomite Suppression Act.’ If the Court does not grant this relief, my office will be forced to issue a title and summary for a proposal that seeks to legalize discrimination and vigilantism.

Two other lawmakers are “so revolted by McLaughlin’s proposed initiative that they have proposed a bill that would increase the fee for filing a ballot measure from $200 to $8 000”, which would hopefully filter out ridiculous suggestions and make space for serious issues.

McLoughlin would have to collect 365 000 signatures in 180 days for the initiative to gain any momentum.

[Source: The Los Angeles Times]