Offering further proof that “Oklahoma extremism” is becoming
an oxymoron, a conservative Republican running for a seat in the state House
says he wants to apply Biblical principles to Oklahoma law – including executing
gay people by stoning them to death.
an oxymoron, a conservative Republican running for a seat in the state House
says he wants to apply Biblical principles to Oklahoma law – including executing
gay people by stoning them to death.
Scott Esk posted this on his Facebook page last
summer: “I think we would be totally in the right to do it. That goes against
some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but
ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”
summer: “I think we would be totally in the right to do it. That goes against
some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but
ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”
A local political reporter recently followed up
on the stoning issue and Esk did not back down: “What I will tell you right now
is that was done in the old testament under a law that came directly from God.
And in that time, it was totally just, it came directly from God. I have no
plans to, you know, reinstitute that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge
moral misgivings about those kinds of sins.”
on the stoning issue and Esk did not back down: “What I will tell you right now
is that was done in the old testament under a law that came directly from God.
And in that time, it was totally just, it came directly from God. I have no
plans to, you know, reinstitute that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge
moral misgivings about those kinds of sins.”
I'm so VERY comforted to know that Scott Esk has "no plans to, you know, re-institute that in Oklahoma law."
But anything short of stoning is probably fair game.