The last time I was a candidate for office in 1997, although
it was the third time I had been a candidate, my youngest had moved here to San
Luis Obispo County. She had long before
let us know that she was a lesbian. That
required that the two of us should have a really down to earth talk. We both of us recognized that if we did not
get out ahead of the media with her lesbianism, someone, somewhere would try to
make it an issue. At the same time, we
did not want to make it a hot-button issue ourselves. Therefore, we decided that I should comment
truthfully if the subject came up, but certainly not try to “hide” it. It so happened that there was an incident in
South County where she and her then partner were shopping where someone stopped
them and was really quite disgustingly rude.
The incident so infuriated our other locally living daughter that she
wrote a great letter to the editor about it.
That, needless to say, surfaced the issue quite nicely, although we were
sorry the incident happened in the first place.
Our
family was very supportive of our daughter marrying her partner of 18 years,
because we love that woman very much as well.
We had the wedding ceremony, and a small reception here at the
house. They had a much bigger
whoop-de-do later in the year. And we
still support them, and their friends who are in same-sex relationships, as we
do all in any committed marital relationship, same-sex or not.
You
can imagine our horror and absolute freak-out anger this morning as we read in
The Tribune, our local county paper, that some lawyer, Matt McLaughlin, in
Orange County has paid his $200 fee to get his “Sodomite Suppression Act” which
authorizes the killing of gays and lesbians by “bullets to the head” or any
“other convenient method”. From The
Tribune: [“McLaughlin’s plan refers to “buggery”
or “sodomy” as “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.” Under the
proposal, “any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender
for purposes of sexual gratification (would) be put to death by bullets to the
head or by any other convenient method.”]
This in itself is bad enough but one could assume that this would be
after a legal trial, with lawyers on both sides, and decent judges. But then there is:
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.
Think about this for a moment.
If the State of California rightly drags its feet on this, then after a
year, if I were seen with any of my daughters or female friends, and we gave
each other a big hug on parting, conceivably some religious whack job could
haul out his/her gun and shoot us in the head, using the excuse that it was
obvious we were just getting ready for “sexual gratification”. And get away with it! This is not free speech.
If it is illegal to shout “fire” in a crowded theatre, then it is
certainly a hate crime to advocate shooting people in the head
extra-judicially, and with immunity for the actions!
I used to wonder about not using the name of God in vain, the
4th Commandment, considering that OMG is such a frequent and
wonderful expletive. I think rather it
refers to using God’s name to justify evil, as this lawyer from Orange County
is doing. For a Christian to use what a
Christian believes is God’s Word to justify such hate, in direct contradiction
to what is taught in the Christian Bible is about as blasphemous as one can
get, in my opinion. What a travesty of
the Great Commandments of Jesus: Love
God with all of your heart, mind and soul, and your neighbor as yourself. Using a reverse logic, if this man hates his
neighbor to this extent, he must really hate himself!
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