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