Matt McLaughlin, a super anti-gay lawyer from Huntington Beach, California, paid a $200 fee to submit a ballot initiative for an act that would allow the killing of gays and lesbians.

The outlandish proposal dictates anyone found committing sodomy “be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method”. While unconstitutional and immoral, California Attorney General Kamala Harris is forced to allow the proposition to gather signatures due to legal reasons. This petition is expected to fail due to California’s decision that the death penalty is unconstitutional last June.

According to CNN.com, “In California, the execution of a death sentence is so infrequent, and the delays preceding it so extraordinary, that the death penalty is deprived of any deterrent or retributive effect it might once have had. Such an outcome is antithetical to any civilized notion of just punishment,” said California Judge Cormac J. Carney on the matter of California’s death penalty.

Many view the Sodomite Suppression Act as a joke, though it is thought to be sincere by McLaughlin and the very few supporters of the act. This idea does bring up some thoughts on other anti-gay laws in California. Recently, the proposal to outlaw gay marriage in California, known as Prop. 8, was shot down by the courts. The supporters of Prop. 8 are in a hissy fit over the court’s decision. Their argument?  If the people approve something, it is legal and constitutional; it should be immune to judicial review over the question of whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

But this thinking is disproved by the supporters’ current opinion of the Prop 8 act, by almost everyone in California, towards the Sodomite Suppression Act. Which then contradicts the arguments of the Prop. 8 act as to its rejection. Unintentionally, McLaughlin has set up some interesting debates over gay-right laws in California with his preposterous death proposal that will undoubtedly be cast out by courts. Harris has stepped forward and asked a judge to step in and end the barbaric petition soon.

According to The Guardian, “It is my sworn duty to uphold the California and United States constitutions and to protect the rights of all Californians. This proposal not only threatens public safety, it is patently unconstitutional, utterly reprehensible, and has no place in a civil society,” said Harris.