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In reply to the discussion: Why are people so averse to acknowledging that organized religion, almost ALL organized religion [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)25. Some links to back you up
Mateen is one of many who want gays killed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/scott-esk-stoning-gays_n_5486678.html
A shocking California ballot proposal that calls for gays and lesbians to be put to death by bullets to the head is triggering a widespread backlash for the author -- while also raising questions about the state's unique and sometimes-troublesome ballot initiative process.
Orange County lawyer Matthew Gregory McLaughlin filed the Sodomite Suppression Act late last month with the state attorney general's office. The initiative, which purports to give residents the authority to act as executioners, contains incendiary language that already is being called outright hate speech.
The proposal reads: Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by Gods 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.
McLaughlin's proposal also calls for banning gays -- or sodomites from holding public office. Those found guilty of spreading propaganda would be fined $1 million and/or thrown in jail for a decade. He or she could also be banned from California for life, under the proposal.
Videos of frothing-at-the-mouth Christians advocating murder and violence (Damn, some Christians are some bloodthirsty fucks!):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/scott-esk-stoning-gays_n_5486678.html
There are quite a few Christians who would execute 100 gays tomorrow if they thought they could get away with it. Their "Prince of Peace" is really cool with that, too.
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Why are people so averse to acknowledging that organized religion, almost ALL organized religion [View all]
boston bean
Jun 2016
OP
Considering all of the things that are implicitly (or interpretationally) authorized in the Bible...
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#8
Westboro Baptist and generations of GOP politicians say the Bible doesn't approve of it, either.
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#39
And most American Muslims don't think one should go shoot 103 people in a gay bar in Florida.
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#47
I have no idea where you got the idea that I'm excusing anything. Quite the opposite.
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#53
Then how is it that several countires execute gay people under Islamic law, if the majority are
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#12
I meant in the entirety of religion. Most people who are religious to some degree or another...
randome
Jun 2016
#28
So then we should discuss the real paradigm, straight people who attack LGBT.
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#13
Agreed. I personally know some very nice muslim women who dress western and show their hair
Quantess
Jun 2016
#81
Look, I'll be blunt: What is the foundational ur-narrative of all 3 western Monotheisms?
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2016
#29
Islam is seen as a Third World relgion, and many progressives are reluctant to criticize
Ex Lurker
Jun 2016
#54
because the only major religion that is consistently killing people, gay people included,
MariaThinks
Jun 2016
#55
"none of us can close our eyes to the fact that we do face enemies who use their distorted version
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2016
#61
I will always side with women, and gays, and trangenedered, and cartoonists who draw Muhammed,
Quantess
Jun 2016
#67
Yep. A pox on all religion and nonsensical supernatural bullshit. May it wither and die.
Arugula Latte
Jun 2016
#76