Legal Commentary

American Sharia: Stoning

By Big Tent Democrat

Taliban Dan's BFF is an advocate of stoning:

[A]n August 5, 1996 article in the Gainesville Sun quoted Webster, 'I respect (Gothard) as much as anybody. [. . .] Bill Gothard, in turn, was a close ally of R.J. Rushdoony, considered the father of Christian Reconstructionism and founder of the movement's flagship institution, the Chalcedon Institute.

[Gothard] agreed that Rushdoony's vision for Biblical law should be imposed upon America. That vision included instituting stoning as a form of capital punishment for rape, kidnapping, murder, heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, "sodomy or homosexuality," incest, striking a parent, extreme juvenile delinquency, and "unchastity before marriage."

(Emphasis supplied.) More on Rushdoony can be found in the March 2010 American Prospect article American Taliban ("You may not have heard of R.J. Rushdoony. He is a kind of American Talib".

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).