Pillars of Salt

There are assholes. There are serious assholes. There are dangerous assholes. And there are seriously dangerous assholes. Matthew G. McLaughlin is all of the above.

Write him off as a crackpot. Dismiss him as an ignorant bigot. Explain him away as a sad product of our times. But if you do, you do so at your own peril.

McLaughlin, an attorney from Huntington Beach, California, an Officer of the Court, has introduced a proposed initiative to the State of California Attorney General entitled, "The Sodomite Suppression Act."

The purpose of the measure states that, "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."

Essentially he wants to deputize the entire state to legally participate in the murder of gay people.

McLaughlin also wants to put a stop to any discussion of pro-gay rights. 

His proposal goes on to say, "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."

Border states should plan in advance for an influx of rainbows, unicorns, and glitter.

McLaughlin likens our current state of affairs to Sodom and Gomorrah, "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 response to this obscene proposal was swift. Calls immediately went out to disbar McLaughlin. A letter to Craig Holden, President of the California Bar, on Change.org states that, "calling for the legalized murder of the LGBT community makes Mr. McLaughlin unfit to practice law. We are demanding the California Bar Association to immediately disbar Matthew G. McLaughlin to prevent him from practicing law in California."

LGBT groups pointed out, contrary to McLaughlin's assertions that homosexuality "is a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction," that members of the LGBT community are our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, neighbors, friends, and co-workers.

The Change.org petition points out that "lawyers are a critical part of our judicial system. They help ensure our legal system is just and fair," and such a man who promotes the legalization of genocide and the mass murder of our loved ones is unfit to stand in a court of law.

McLaughlin would need over 365,000 signatures to place the voter initiative on the 2016 ballot, and even if somehow passed, the California Supreme Court would rule it as unconstitutional.

I think something that needs to be said though, is that such blatant homophobia as demonstrated by McLaughlin, the Boy Scouts, and recent legislation in Indiana and elsewhere, should come as no surprise in the face of the LGBT mafia's public agenda and tactics.

I understand it is politically incorrect to say so, and that is exactly the point. In it's striving for legal equality and acceptance, LGBT political action groups have rammed homosexuality down the throats of middle America. I, myself, fall somewhere under the LGBT umbrella, and no one has been as outspoken for so long a time as I have in breaking down the barriers of misinformation and intolerance.

It galls me when I perceive all the hard work and sacrifice of myself and others being undermined by zealotry, no matter how well-intentioned.

McLaughlin uses the term "buggery" (which does not refer to the procreative habits of insects), and Carol Dahmen, the sponsor of the Change.org petition, responds by accusing him of "moral turpitude" (which actually sounds more like the act of anal sex than "buggery"). None of this sits well with the majority of Americans who just want to go about their lives without having all this shoved up their butts.

Yes, Mr. McLaughlin's proposal is "disturbing," "outrageous," "immoral," and "disgraceful." It smacks of anti-gay sentiments in Russia, Africa, and the Middle East.

The acceptance of gays into the heart of our society should be a discussion based on love and compassion. Instead it is just another divisive issue based on fear and hate.