Religious Rights Attorney Proposes 'Kill the Gays' Bill for California

Killing the gays legislation: it's not just for Uganda anymore.

A California religious rights attorney has proposed a ballot measure and is in the process of collecting signatures to have a law placed on the books in the Golden State that would make homosexuality a crime punishable by death.

Titled the "Sodomite Suppression Act," the measure is the brainchild of Orange County attorney Matthew G. McLaughlin, who filed papers with the state Attorney General's Office on February 24 and paid the $200 filing fee to the State of California. In addition to calling for the death penalty, the act also seeks to bar gay citizens from public office, public employment and public benefits. It also calls for a ban on "sodomistic propaganda" for which offenders could face fines of $1 million per occurrence and/ or up to 10 years in prison and / or banishment from California.

"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 Gomorrha," McLaughlin's draft reads.

"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."

McLaughlin's measure needs approximately 350,000 signatures to move forward.