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Heres one so offended hes making it into a ballot initiative in cali
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/22/8270411/california-lgbt-executions
A California lawyer proposed a ballot initiative to legalize the execution of gay and lesbian people in the state.
The measure isn't expected to end up on the ballot, since it's clearly unconstitutional, but it's drawing attention to California's bizarre ballot initiative process.
California's attorney general is likely required by law to clear the initiative. But the state's Supreme Court is likely to step in and stop the measure, particularly if the proposal gets enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.
The measure would authorize the killing of gay and lesbian Californians
Orange County attorney Matt McLaughlin paid the $200 filing fee on February 26 to submit the Sodomite Suppression Act to voters on November 2016.
The proposal has no chance of becoming law, since it's unconstitutional and would most likely never get approval from California voters, but it's drawn national attention because its provisions are so abhorrent and extreme.
As the San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee reported, the proposal would require the execution of anyone who touches a person of the same sex for sexual gratification by "bullets to the head or by any other convenient method." It declares that it's "better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God's just wrath." Private citizens would be allowed to step in to act as executioners if the state didn't within a year, meaning that the murder of gay and lesbian people would effectively be legalized.
The measure would also make it illegal, with the threat of a $1 million fine, up to 10 years in prison, and permanent expulsion from the state, to advocate for gay rights to an audience that includes minors. And it would require posting the measure's language prominently in public school classrooms.
The initiative specifies that its constitutionality could only be decided by a California Supreme Court that doesn't include LGBT justices and their supporters, but that portion would only be true if the measure passed.
The proposal very likely won't pass, but it's drawing attention to California's initiative process
Kamala Harris
California Attorney General Kamala Harris probably has to grant the initiative a title and summary. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News)
In California, ballot initiative sponsors pay a $200 filing fee for their measure, the attorney general gives it a title and summary, supporters collect more than 365,000 signatures, and, if all that's successful, California votes on it.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who's considering a Senate run in 2016, appears to have no options for blocking the measure. Legal experts told the San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee that the attorney general is required by law to provide a title and summary for proposed ballot measures once someone pays the $200 filing fee.
This setup, legal experts said, prevents elected attorneys general from interfering with citizen-proposed ballot initiatives that they disagree with politically. Instead, more politically impartial judges are able to decide the constitutionality of proposed measures.
The California Supreme Court could, and is, expected to step in to block the proposal if it gets too far in the process. The measure violates constitutional due process protections for people who commit private, consensual sexual activity, and it tries to unconstitutionally limit people's free-speech rights with multiple provisions that would try to stop certain forms of LGBT advocacy.
that not a school or a group complaining and whinging, sorry, it will backfire on him....just like creative dominats "link"
Hang on IM gonna go find the link to the poor chap who wants to use wolves to get rid off the homeless in his city, oh sorry....state
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-don-youngs-solution-to-the-homeless-problem-wolves/
Alaska Rep. Don Young has settled on a novel solution to the problem of homelessness: wolves.
Young, a long-serving Republican with a history of odd commentary, discussed the idea during an exchange on Thursday with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, who was testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee about her department's budget.
Young has been pushing for the Interior Department to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list, and during the hearing, he ridiculed a letter sent by 79 lawmakers to Jewell urging her to protect the gray wolf population.
"How many of you have got wolves in your district?" Young asked the other lawmakers on the panel. "None. Not one."
"They haven't got a damn wolf in their whole district," he added. "I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore."
It's not clear whether Young was suggesting the wolves could eat the homeless population -- perhaps he expects the homeless to make tents out of wolf hides.
Young has a reputation for off-color remarks. Last October, he told students at an Alaska high school that some suicides are due to a lack of support from friends and family. The remark, which came just days after a student at the school took his own life, was met with outrage from students and faculty, and Young was quickly forced to apologize.
And in 2013, Young reminisced in a radio interview about the "50 to 60 wetbacks" who picked tomatoes at his father's ranch when he was younger. He apologized for that remark as well, saying the term was "commonly used" during his childhood and that he "meant no disrespect."
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