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Wednesday, December 16. 2009"I Can't Comment on the Merits of that Bill Calling for the Execution of Blasphemers Until I Know All the Details..."
Mike Stark: …there’s legislation before their parliament that would criminalize homosexuality...um…it started out…the penalty was up to and including the death penalty. Do you think it’s appropriate to criminalize homosexual conduct anymore? “It says here where he shot a five-year-old boy right through the neck. Bullet went in one side and out the other. I think that’s terrible, don’t you?” After being contacted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri, Senator Sam Brownback's office declared, through his chief of staff that, "He [Brownback] clearly doesn't condone the death penalty or criminalization for LGBT people.” “Clearly?” No. See, that’s the problem. The conversation with Mike Stark left the impression that Brownback thinks there’s some context in which criminalizing homosexuality, even making it a capital crime, might be either reasonable or moral. You can almost hear him say that, well, Uganda might have “a pretty good reason” for imprisoning and/or executing people for being homosexual. Trackbacks
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