That headline is the vernacular for what is actually written in the Gospel According To John in the Authorized King James version of the Christian Bible:
The Gospel According to John”, chapter 8, verses 3–7
³And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
⁴They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
⁵Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
⁶This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
⁷So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Now why am I bringing this up? Well, there’s this guy: Scott Esk, 56, is running in the Republican primary runoff election tomorrow for a seat in the state house (Oklahoma). And why? Well this self-anointed Christian has, in the past, suggested that gay people should be stoned…and that thought makes him a good Christian.
A GOP candidate in Oklahoma is getting attention for comments he made several years ago when he justified the death penalty by stoning for gay people. When asked recently about it, he didn’t disavow his previous comments.
In 2013, Esk was commenting in a Facebook conversation about the Pope saying that he couldn’t judge gay people. Esk posted some Bible quotations, including the part of Romans 1 where the Bible says that a long list of people who sinned is “worthy of death.”
Another person asked him: “So, just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?”
Esk responded: “I think we would be totally in the right to do it… Ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.
A year later, a journalist asked him about those comments. He said it was “totally just” to kill gay people.
“What I will tell you right now is that that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God,” he said at the time. “And in that time, there was, it was, totally just came directly from God.”
I am not going to go too far into this sick mind’s ideas…but Mr. Christian…the Old Testament don’t mean shit in the world of the New Covenant of the New Testament between Christ and humanity. Let him who is without sin…
But this type of Christianity is just the opposite of my understanding of Christianity and my understanding of the American experiment with Democracy. People who think like this shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the handles of power in government at any level…they are the Pharisees of the 21st Century.
and finally, from Esk:
“Well, does that make me a homophobe? Maybe some people think it does,” he said. “But as far as I and many of the people, the voters of House District A7 are concerned, it simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should.”
I don’t believe that’s what Christ had in mind. Esk should maybe just turn the other cheek.
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