Scott Esk

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Scott Esk was a Republican candidate for the Oklahoma state house, backed by the Tea Party but defeated in the Republican primaries. His political platform hit all the usual notes of such candidates: opposing abortion, state's rights, going on about traditional family values, low taxes, and also being totally down with stoning all gay people to death.[1][2][3]

He did seem to realise that wanting to kill all gay people—as well as "apply Biblical principles to Oklahoma law"—was an interesting policy decision for someone claiming to be a libertarian:

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.

That was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God and in that time there it was totally just. It came directly from God. I have no plans to reinstitute that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge moral misgivings about those kinds of sins, and I think those kinds of sins will not do our country any good and certainly don’t do anything to preserve the family.

[edit] References

  1. Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Calls For Homosexuals To Be Stoned To Death!, Firebrand Progressives
  2. Tea Party Candidate Says It's OK To Stone Gays To Death, Huffington Post
  3. Oklahoma Republican thinks stoning gay people is okay, Washington Examiner
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