JUDGE BLOCKS KILL-GAYS BALLOT MEASURE

East County News Service

June 23, 2015 (Sacramento)—A proposed initiative that called for killing gay people won’t be appearing on California ballots.  Superior Court Judge  Raymond Cadei in Sacramento County has ruled that the measure would be “inappropriate, waste public resources, generate unnecessary divisions among the public, and tend to mislead the electorate.”

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who had asked the court for permission to deny the “Sodomite Suppression Act” a place on the ballot, applauded the decision. She called the act proposed by Orange County lawyer Matthew McLaughlin “the product of bigotry” adding that the proposed law “is patently unconstitutional and has no place in a civil society.”