Oklahoma candidate for office posts on Facebook about death penalty for gays, cites old testament

[Newsjock]

Source: KJRH-TV

Scott Esk is running for House District 91 state representative. On his website, he describes himself as a conservative who wants to apply biblical principles to Oklahoma law.

“This is the first time I’ve ever come across an Oklahoman with this kind of fringe attitude," said Rob Morris, editor of the Moore Monthly magazine and the MooreDaily.com.

... Morris says he found the posts from last summer on Facebook. At the time, Esk commented on a story about the pope saying “Who am I to judge?” on homosexuality. Esk posted old testament scripture that referred to homosexuality being punished.

Another user asked for clarification: “So just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?” In response, Esk posted, “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.”

Read more: http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/oklahoma-candidate-for-office-posts-on-facebook-about-death-penalty-for-gays-cites-old-testament

[LynneSin]

1. Didn't Oklahoma pass a law banning Sharia Law in their state

And yet this guy wants to practice a version of Christian Sharia Law.

When the disciples asked Jesus what was the most important laws of God he didn't mention anything about Homosexuality being bad. He mentioned to 'Love God' and to 'Love one Another'.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Some of that kristian love. Can't you just feel it?

[maindawg]

3. ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

I would like to ask this teabagging douche what exactly is worthy of death?
Way to reach new heights of being an asshole.

[Tess49]

9. I wish we had a "like" button on here.

Well, give him some slack. He doesn't plan on trying to pass any laws that would make stoning people a form of punishment. You are right, he is a giant ass.

[azurnoir]

4. a guy like that could do very well in say Uganda

I mean being a Libertarius and all

[CurtEastPoint]

5. I went to his FB page and he's moaning about his wife keeping him from seeing his kids (2012)

I wonder why. He's a fucking lunatic, maybe?

[Tess49]

8. I saw that.too. He seemed to think that jail time would

do her some good. I think he's finished -- even here in red, red, red Okla.

[damnedifIknow]

6. Just total and complete ignorance

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** Trying to influence the religious with factual argument, however, just doesn't work.**

Of course, nothing is this simple. Every person, to some extent, falls into both of these groups, although one or the other of the two tendencies usually dominates. So if you predominately fall into one of these groups and you come into conflict with someone of the other type, resist the temptation to vilify him/her, because there's some degree of him/her in you too.

But the conflicts that arise between these groups are serious, because their resolutions are often impossible, and legislative or judicial attempts to resolve them often prove to be ineffective.

An example of such a conflict is same sex marriage. This issue cannot be solved, and if a solution is imposed on the public, the opponents of that solution will continue to harbor resentment and make continual attempts to undo it. Issues like these are only resolved by time during which both the evidence and belief-structures slowly change.

The issue of slavery illustrates such a resolution. Lincoln imposed a solution on the issue by emancipating the slaves. But it took a long time for belief-structures to change for that solution to become accepted as the right one. Today, hardly anyone would defend slavery."

So when I say that Americans are religious, I don't mean religious in any conventional sense. What I mean is this:

There are people whose lives are pretty much lived in accordance with belief-structures. These people have never thought seriously about these structures, never questioned their validity, never have sought any evidence for them. None of these are thought to even be necessary. These belief-structures take on the attributes of absolute truths that are unquestionable, and no amount of evidence that contradicts these structures ever changes their minds. People who live this way are religious."

http://www.jkozy.com/Are_Americans_a_Religious_People__Emphatically_Yes_.htm

[TlalocW]

7. I forget which one it is

But there's a smaller, fringe white supremacy group made up of bubbas who go out into the woods and shoot beer cans and dream of a coming race war that they can hide from and then jump on the coattails of when the danger is over. And it sounds kind of weird to say it because I of course don't believe in killing homosexuals or "curing" them or whatever, and I cheer whenever another state strikes down anti-marriage equality so the point I'm making sounds bad, but you've got all these "Christians" who are like these bubbas who say God says kill the gays or whatever, and they don't do anything about it. I don't want them to do anything about it, but it seems like crap like this falls into two camps:

1. Bubbas who claim that they know what God wants but don't want to follow through on it but talk about it in hopes others will
2. Just so much playground macho posturing in order to get neanderthals to vote for them

And not being gay, maybe I'm speaking out of turn, but I really, really wish we had a Westboro type group comprised of LGBTs who instead of holding up stupid signs would take a box of rocks and go and confront these assholes and tell him to put his money where his mouth is and show God he's on His side because you know the punk-ass would back down.

TlalocW

[kelliekat44]

10. And he's describes himself as a libertarian. nt

[Mz Pip]

11. Old Testament Christians

I thought Christianity was all about the New Covenant where God stopped being a vengeful God and put out some new material, the New Testament. There was nothing about stoning Gays in the NewTestament.

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Christian Dominionism/New Apostolic Reformation Theology

Everybody dies

[olddad56]

13. Caution, if people in Oklahoma would vote for a person like this, there are probably people ....

in the US that would also.