Gay Rights Foe Asks Facebook Friends To 'Like' Death Penalty For Gays
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | July 26, 2013
Liberty Counsel, the law firm and ministry that provides legal assistance to Christians, posted as its Facebook cover an image citing Leviticus 20:13.
The verse has been interpreted by Jews and Christians as a prohibition against gay sex.
“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
The image posted by the group, which has since been taken down, included stick figures of a man and a woman. The caption “One Man One Woman” hangs above the figures and the caption “Leviticus 20:13” below them.
Writing at Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way, Brian Tashman responded: “We are eagerly awaiting Liberty Counsel's other Facebook images on stoning women who had sex before marriage; adulterers; kids who curse their parents; blasphemers; sorcerers; Sabbath-breakers and false prophets.”
Liberty Counsel is headed by Mathew Staver, who founded it with his wife, Anita, in 1989.