California lawyer files papers for ‘Sodomite Suppression Act’ to save state from ‘God’s just wrath’

[DonViejo]

Acting on a tip from a reader, the editors at Wonkette have uncovered papers filed with the California Attorney General’s Office by a Huntington Beach attorney, calling for a proposed ballot initiative called “The Sodomite Suppression Act,” which he hopes will save the Golden State from “God’s just wrath.”

The filing, along with a check for $200, will allow attorney Matthew McLaughlin to begin the process of collecting the approximately 365,000 signatures needed to put the measure before California voters on an upcoming ballot.

According to McLaughlin’s filing, “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.”

Saying that it is better if offenders (“sodomites”) be put to death rather than “all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath against us for tolerating wickedness in our midst,” the attorney proposes 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.”

While a federal judge struck down California’s death penalty as unconstitutional in 2014, McLaughlin has that covered.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/california-lawyer-files-papers-for-sodomite-suppression-act-to-save-state-from-gods-just-wrath/

[haikugal]

1. They sure like to waste everyone's time and money..

What happened to all the bitching about nuisance suits and how much they cost?

[Xithras]

2. Well, he's really only wasting his own time and money right now.

Even if he could get the signatures, it would never make the ballot. Why not? Because it conflicts with the California constitution and tries to illegally override its protections. In California, there are two kinds of initiatives used to make law...statute initiatives used to amend or create regular laws, and constitutional initiatives to change or override the state constitution. Constitutional initiatives are less common because they require over 500,000 signatures just to make it onto the ballot, while statute initiatives require about 360,000.

This guy is proposing a statute initiative to override the state constitution. Under state law, that proposed initiative isn't even valid. Statute initiatives cannot alter, suppress, or override any aspect of the state constitution. They certainly can't prohibit state courts from overriding or reviewing it (a right that is granted the courts by the state constitution).

It's hard to believe that someone who passed the bar could have written something so idiotic.

[haikugal]

5. Thanks for taking the time to explain just how insane they are and why.

It's looking more like Kabuki all the time. Sad, stupid people....we need to continue to call them out for their religious stupidity.

[tanyev]

3. Somebody's got Islamic State envy.

[hifiguy]

4. I think this cretin turned up in a Monty Python sketch

45 years ago. Viz

[NightWatcher]

6. If a lawmaker wanted a law to protect us from the Easter Bunny's wrath, we'd medicate

and lock him up for an involuntary psyche hold and evaluation.

I look at this the exact same way, it's lunacy.

[WillyT]

7. K & R !!!

[William769]

8. Maybe someone should tell him that in 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court

Said sodomy laws are unconstitutional.


Screw it (pun intended), let him waste his money.

[krispos42]

9. So...

...37 million people choose to live in a state with a multi-million-year history of violent earthquakes. And minimal rainfall, which tends to make conditions ripe for vast and fast-moving wildfires. And that touches the ocean, which allows for tsunamis to sweep in to the crowded cities that nestle. And the heaviest-populated areas are rugged cliffs and canyons, with little soil-retaining vegetation on them, that tend to form mudslides when it does rain.

Throw in a history of Bible-based racism and slavery, compound it with authoritarian police tactics and institutional racism, and top it with racially-selective drug laws.


But when it goes to shit, it's because of teh gay.



Riiiiiiiight.