I WOULD WELCOME SOMEONE, anyone documenting to me any time that any MAGA, Republican-fascist, Trumpzi, or anyone on the right who has recently invoked the many instances when Leviticus or other verses in the Bible command the stoning murder of straight men who commit adultery or any or a range of sexual or other crimes. I'm trying to think of any time I ever heard anyone, even the most rabid of old-line "trad" Catholics who may still take Luke 16:18 or Matthew 5:32 seriously* take the logical step to say that according to Leviticus those straight adulterers have to be taken out and stoned to death.
I would welcome it knowing full well that apart from, perhaps, some of the cultists of the late and excommunicated Fr. Leonard Feeney, you won't find a one.
I would like to know when Kirk or any other Republican-fascist influencer ever advocated that treatment for straight adulterers explicitly or even in the wink and nod way that Kirk did when he and his fascist bros were slamming an nice young woman on instagram for advocating love - I'll give you the link to where you can hear what he actually said.
MS Rachel, in her Pride Month message pointed out that Jesus said that Loving God with all your heart and loving your neighbor as yourself were the very basis of the Law and the Prophets:
37 He replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being,[a] and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.” Matthew 22: 37-40 Common English Bible
You can listen to what Kirk and the other creeps said, you might notice that Patriot Takes gives you the gist of what Kirk asserted SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE STONING GAY PEOPLE PART OF IT:
While criticizing YouTuber Ms. Rachel for quoting “love your neighbor” to defend celebrating pride month, Charlie Kirk quoted a Bible verse used to justify stoning gay people “to death.”
Kirk called the stoning verse, “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”
I have no idea why Stephen King backed down but his original reading of it was right, it's exactly what Charlie Kirk was advancing in his selective reading of Scripture, just as everyone selectively reads it while calling one of the most brutal of verses EVER REALLY FOLLOWED UP TO AND INTO THE MODERN ERA AS THE REST OF IT IS IGNORED. If you think that kind of thing is over, when Charles Rhines was sentenced to death in South Dakota (executed in 2019) one of the jurors took him being gay into their decision he should die. One who sentenced him said that just sending him to prison for life would be what a gay man would want. The courts wouldn't even look at the evidence:
South Dakota executed death row prisoner Charles Rhines on November 4, 2019, following unsuccessful litigation on multiple fronts. A South Dakota judge issued an execution warrant for Mr. Rhines in June 2019, on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to grant certiorari review of his claim that his jurors had sentenced him to death based on his sexual orientation. From 2016 to 2019, Mr. Rhines had attempted to obtain judicial review of that claim, armed with sworn statements from multiple jurors confirming this basis for their decision. However, state and federal courts repeatedly refused to grant him a hearing to determine whether his death sentence was constitutional in light of the new evidence.
I could go on and on with that. I would point out that even today that anyone who murders a gay man in many, perhaps all states could put him on trial by bringing that up and many law scholars say that that should be allowed.
Perhaps someone should give the generally thoughtful Stephen King that real context to what Kirk said as an excuse to reject the "Love your neighbor" "all your neighbors" part of what Ms. Rachel said.
Kirk called the stoning verse, “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” I'm sure that he and the bros would reject the parts about straight guys getting stoned for committing adultery, I'm sure they'd exempt their god-man Trump for his lifetime of violating what Kirk called "God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters." And that's just one of the massive hypocrisies, lies, racist slanders, etc. that came out of that fountain of hate and advocacy of violence.
* Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, commmitteth adultery. Luke 16:18
But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery. Matthew 5:32
Douay-Rheims Bible
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