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'Death Penalty For Gays' Literature At Right-Wing Conference
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 11/6/2015 3:38 pm
Phillip Kayser is among the several speakers joining Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa this weekend, and as we've reported, he, along with the conference's chief organizer,
Kevin Swanson, has
called on the government to execute gay people. Kayser's views are so extreme that back in the 2012 election, Ron Paul's campaign tried to
cover up his endorsement.
However, it seems that in today's GOP, calling for the execution of gay people isn't beyond the pale.
At the conference, where he is giving two speeches on how local officials and others can defy the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision, Kayser distributed
the very pamphlet calling for the death penalty for gay people that caused a stir back when he endorsed Paul.
In the pamphlet, “Is The Death Penalty Just?,” Kayser unsurprisingly concludes that the death penalty is in fact just, and lists homosexuality among the offenses deserving of capital punishment. Ironically for a "religious liberties" summit, he also claims that the government should treat "breaking the Sabbath," "blasphemy and cursing God publicly," "publicly sacrificing to other gods" and "apostasy" as death penalty crimes as well.
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'Death Penalty For Gays' Literature At Right-Wing Conference
The Christians Who Want To Execute You–And The Republicans Who Court Them
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Such sentiments shouldn’t come as a surprise. Earlier this year, a lawyer named Matthew McLaughlin proposed
a ballot measure in California that would allow the state to “put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method” and LGBT citizens. McLaughlin was readily dismissed as just one more nut in the plentiful right-wing orchard, but he was merely reflecting a belief that still lingers on among the right wing, even as society rapidly changes.
And then, of course, there has been the religious right’s promotion of anti-gay legislation in Uganda. An earlier version of that bill would have allowed the country to execute gays, which
the American ministers fanning the flames of homophobia conveniently dismissed as going to far.
In fact, there’s a strong thread of kill-the-gays belief running through the religious right. One of the chief influences of the modern conservative evangelical movement is
Rousas Rushdoony. Rushdoony founded the Christian Reconstructionist movement, which called for the U.S. to follow Biblical law,
including executing LGBT people. The movement remains popular, especially during the GOP primary season. Four years ago, Republicans were tripping all over themselves
to court David Barton, who advocates for theocracy.
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The Christians Who Want To Execute You–And The Republicans Who Court Them / Queerty