A California lawyer has filed an initiative, called the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” requiring 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” and imposing $1 million fines and 10-year prison sentences on anyone who “distributes, performs, or transmits any sodomistic propaganda” (and throws in banishment for good measure). There probably are some free speech, equal protection, and due process problems with this; but never mind all that, he has that angle covered. The initiative also provides:
“This law is effective immediately and shall not be rendered ineffective or invalidated by any court, state or federal, until heard by a quorum of the Supreme Court of California consisting only of judges who are neither sodomites nor subject to disqualification hereunder.”
Matthew Gregory McLaughlin, who has an office in a Huntington Beach strip mall, wants to protect California from “God’s wrath” for harboring what he calls “Sodomites.” Which makes me wonder: Was this guy molested by a funny uncle when he 
was a kid? Or is he just a religious extremist? This isn’t his first initiative; in 2004, he filed an initiative to give Bibles to all public school students in California. That one probably had constitutional issues, too.
Image: Will this be California’s fate when God’s wrath descends upon modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah?
Text of “Sodomite Suppression Act” amending California Penal Code Sec. 39:
“a) 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 Gomorrah.
“b) 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.
“c) No person shall distribute, perform, or transmit sodomistic propaganda directly or indirectly by any means to any person under the age of majority. Sodomistic propaganda is defined as anything aimed at creating an interest in or an acceptance of human sexual relations other than between a man and a woman. Every offender shall be fined $1 million per occurrence, and/or imprisoned up to 10 years, and/or expelled from the boundaries of the state of California for up to life.
“d) No person shall serve in any public office, nor serve in public employment, nor enjoy any public benefit, who is a sodomite or who espouses sodomistic propaganda or who belongs to any group that does.
“e) This law is effective immediately and shall not be rendered ineffective nor invalidated by any court, state or federal, until heard by a quorum of the Supreme Court of California consisting only of judges who are neither sodomites nor subject to disqualification hereunder.
“f) The state has an affirmative duty to defend and enforce this law as written, and every member of the public has standing to seek its enforcement and obtain reimbursement for all costs and attorney’s fees in so doing, and further, should the state persist in inaction over 1 year after due notice, the general public is empowered and deputized to execute all the provisions hereunder extra-judicially, immune from any charge and indemnified by the state against any and all liability.
“g) This law shall be known as “The Sodomite Suppression Act” and be numbered as section 39 in Title 3 of the Penal Code, pertaining to offences [sic] against the sovereignty of the state. The text shall be prominently posted in every public school classroom. All laws in conflict with this law are to that extent invalid.”
Filing this initiative cost McLaughlin 200 bucks. The publicity it’ll generate for his law practice likely is priceless, although if I needed a lawyer, I’d want someone with a better command of basic legal principles.
I’m curious why this “Sodomite Suppression Act” calls for shooting gays, instead of stoning them. Lacking more information, I assume McLaughlin was motivated by compassion for the condemned.
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