The ‘Sodomite Suppression Act’?

by JASmius



Sorry, Mr. McLaughlin, I'm not buying it:

A ballot proposal to allow the killing of gays and lesbians in California is unlikely to be successful, but the issue is raising questions about the limits of free speech and the state's initiative process.

NBC News reports Orange County lawyer Matthew Gregory McLaughlin filed the Sodomite Suppression Act on February 24th with the state's attorney general's office. The proposed law would also ban gays from holding public office.

McLaughlin's law calls for people who are spreading "sodomite propaganda" to be fined $1 million or be sentenced to jail, according to NBC.

The bill proposes the authorization for the killing of gays and lesbians by "bullets to the head" or "any other convenient method," the Sacramento Bee reports. [emphasis added]

Have you stopped laughing yet?  Not at the specter of any or all of the above being done to Acapulco Golden State rump rangers, but at the mind-blowing absurdity of attempting to bring such quasi-Islamic jurisprudence to the California initiative ballot.  Seriously, have the giggles died down yet?  Mine haven't.

Let's go down the list, shall we?

1) There is no place outside Tehran where such a ballot initiative could get a "yes" vote total in even double-digits.  No, wait, I take that back, it couldn't get ANY "yes" votes because it would be considered too moderate in Tehran.

2) Even if Mr. McLaughlin really believes in the, well, medieval content of the SSA, it is inconceivable to me that he would actually put it into a ballot initiative and file it if he wanted to be able to continue breathing in California, much less practice law.  And, sure enough, the State legislature's Queer Caucus is demanding the McLaughlin be disbarred. (Which he apparently cannot be, because he filed the SSA "as a citizen, not a lawyer," whatever that means, according to "legal experts".  A "degree of separation" that I can't believe he would be accorded if McLaughlin were truly as out to get the sexually retrograde as his initiative clearly suggests.)

3) Ergo, Mr. McLaughlin filed a genuinely homophobic ballot initiative that has zero chance of passing at the cost of his personal and professional reputation and at great risk to his very life.  So either he is the hardest of hardcore "gay"-haters....or he's a Lavender Lobby troll.

Take another look at the aforequote: "A ballot proposal to allow the killing of gays and lesbians in California is unlikely to be successful, but the issue is raising questions about the limits of free speech and the state's initiative process."  Isn't squashing the First Amendment rights of evangelical Christians at or pretty darn near the top of the militant dinnermasher agenda?  What more effective way of carrying that ball over the metaphorical goal line than to send a troll out to file the sort of ballot initiative they bigotedly assume the "Christian Right" REALLY wants put into law and use it as grounds for stripping evangelicals of ALL their constitutional rights?  Heck, it's a tried & true totalitarian gambit going all the way back to the Nazis' Reichstag fire stunt that they used as justification for cracking down on all their political rivals, most especially their "co-religionists" the communists.  I fully expect sodomite extremists to use Mr. McLaughlin's "bait" in precisely the same way.

Maybe they'll be honest and call it the "Christian Suppression Act".  Except that instead of shooting believers in the back of the head, they'll be sodomized first, and THEN shot in the head.

I bet that initiative actually COULD pass in California.