It became a serious proposal when it was submitted as an initiative to be passed into law. Someone might think that's a joke, but I don't. When somebody makes a legal move to attempt to make lawful the shooting of other Americans by the government, or failing at that, by private citizens, that person is an evil POS and should, like Haman, be subject to the genocide he proposed for others. It isn't the least bit funny and it's serious to me.A "serious proposal"? Really?I already published my remarks on another thread. I don't want to have anything to do with somebody who wants to kill their fellow Americans because they don't like them. Whatever his point may be, it was lost in making a serious proposal to enact a law to put people to death for lifestyles he disagrees with.
Sheesh "St Mike"...
This thread BTW isn't about whether it is right or wrong to encourage the general public to shoot people as they see fit. Obviously. It is a thread about the ruse of pretending this proposed statute is a "serious proposal".
Obviously it is not. Which is very disturbing indeed.
Even more disturbing is California's AG Kamala Harris "playing along" throwing her hands up in the air in professed impotence when all she and the legislature would have to do is say the proposed intiative is about two things 1. Amending the death penalty (which it does not state in its title, therefore it cannot be submitted for a vote) and banning distribution of homosexual propaganda in schools.
It's a stroke of genius by the theater troupe in CA. At once they pluck the heartstrings and tie the issue to a reasonable cause "to keep pro-homosexual propaganda away from kids in school" (...like Kevin Jennings' fisting and anal sex promotion a few years back) and at the same time to an utterly violent and vile cause "to kill homosexuals at will". So this ruse was crafted to tie reasonable people with reasonable objections to inappropriate promotion of homosexuality to impressionable youth (see youth and current HIV/AIDS statistics) to violent people who would kill gays by shooting them to death....
That's why in the OP I posted the quote from the West Coast news station that said "even SOME" anti gay marriage people were speaking out about this law.
Really? A tiny fraction of all the people opposed to gay marriage are the only ones who aren't simultaneously contemplating shooting gays to death?
This type of hyperbole was exactly the type of hyperbole used in Ferguson MO to ramp up racial (and therefore civil ) unrest.
If you aren't convinced of the deeply disturbed and insidious nature of this cult and their bought/threatened sychophants in high places by now, you never will be.
Unfortunately due to the initiative process here in California, it is unlikely that this initiative proposal can be prevented from going forward- though it should die a quick death when attempting to gather signatures- but maybe not- there are lots of areas of California where unfortunately the hysterical anti-gay propaganda that this guy apparently has swallowed whole is quite popular. Wouldn't surprise me if he is able to get 20,000 or more signatures.
But none of this is really what's bugging me. I am very much angered by anyone proposing that we start killing people we don't like, no matter who they are. I hope you believe me when I say that while I disagree with your choice of lifestyle, I hope that you live a long and happy and are never subject to legal sanction for how you live your private life. To me this is no joke because when people start legal proceedings to enact a law to kill a class of citizens, we've gone WAY above just talk, we've taken the first step in making it a reality. The fact that this guy was trying to garner sympathy for gays will be lost against the backdrop of the precedent he's setting.
And nobody else on this thread who's responded seems to recognize the danger I'm seeing.
I have seen too many posters here on these boards suggest killing people that they do not like- liberals- blacks- homosexuals- and I am sure some have proposed killing conservatives too. I agree- it is always going too far to suggest that those you do not like- or do not agree with- should be killed. It happens too frequently here on these boards.
That you believe that this guy is trying to 'garner sympathy for gays'- despite the absolute lack of evidence to support that assertion- well that just speaks to your own bias.