Shoot the gays
Matthew Gregory McLaughlin, California Lawyer, Proposes Ballot Measure Allowing Execution of Gays
A organization of California legislators has filed a complaint against a lawyer who is proposing a statewide ballot initiative that would permit gays and lesbians to be "put to death by bullets to the head."
Matthew Gregory McLaughlin, an Orange County attorney, filed the so-called Sodomite Suppression Act on Feb. 24 with the state's Office of the Attorney General. McLaughlin's proposed law would also ban gays — whom he refers to as "sodomites" — from holding public office.
Under his proposed law, people initiate guilty of spreading "sodomite propaganda" would be fined $1 million or observe jail time.
But the declare Legislature’s LGBT Caucus is asking the State Lock to review McLaughlin, who is listed as active and permitted to habit in California. They consider he's violating the Mention Bar's requirement that attorneys act in "good moral character."
"We are shocked and outraged that a member of the State Exclude would so callously ring for the disenfranchisement, expulsion and murder of members of the LGBT community," the caucus wrote in its complaint dated Parade 10 and obtained by NBC News.
"We
'Vile and heinous': Michigan man admits to planning mass shootings targeting gay people
OWOSSO, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Michigan man pleaded remorseful this week after plotting to discharge and kill homosexual people, authorities said.
Mack Davis, 22, of Owosso, admitted that he was planning shootings at a political party headquarters and bar because he associated those locations with Gay people.
Plotting the mass shooting
According to court documents, Davis spent nearly a year researching mass killings, posting about those murders, and paying tribute to the people who devoted them. He also wrote about these killings in journals and on objects inside his place as he started planning his retain mass killing.
His plans included making a list of the tactical gear and weapons he had, along with what he would want to commit the murders. This planning started around July 2023, and by this June, authorities say Davis had crossed off everything on his list.
Federal authorities said Davis possessed two firearms, magazines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a crossbow and arrows, assorted bomb-making parts, smoke grenades, tactical gear and clothing, and several knives, including one with
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What is the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense?
The LGBTQ+ “panic” defense is a legal strategy wherein defendants charged with violent crimes weaponize their victim’s real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity/expression to reduce or evade criminal liability. It is not a freestanding defense to criminal liability. Rather, the defense is a legal tactic that bolsters other defenses, such as insanity, provocation, or self-defense. When a defendant uses the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense, they argue that their violent conduct are both explained and excused by their victim’s real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. The goal of this strategy is to employ homophobia and transphobia to persuade a jury into fully or partially acquitting the defendant. Whether or not this appeal to bigotry is successful in court, every time a defendant invokes the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense, they reinforce the dangerous and discredited doctrine that LGBTQ+ lives are worth less than others.
Matthew Shepard’s murder trial is one of the most recognized cases featuring the LGTBQ+ “panic” defense. In 1998, two men brutally beat the 21-year-old college student
Slovakia: Two dead after shooting outside LGBT bar
A third person was wounded in the assault on Wednesday evening near the Teplaren bar, close to the city centre.
The suspected gunman was found dead on Thursday morning, police said.
Information on his motive has not been released. However, local media reported that he had written social media posts indicating that he held views against LGBT and Jewish people.
The childish man was also identified in Slovak media as the son of a former candidate for a far-right political party.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Eduard Heger condemned the attack, saying any form of extremism was unacceptable. Meanwhile, President Zuzana Caputova called on the country's politicians to stop spreading hate.
The apparent hate crime sparked renewed calls for an finish to homophobia in Slovakia, a relatively conservative EU region where same-sex marriage is not permitted.
The shooting, which shortly after 19:00 local time (18:00 BST) on Wednesday, sparked a police manhunt.
Officers reassured the universal on Thursday morning that there was no risk of a follow-up shootings from the alike perpetrator, having discovered the