Shoot the gays
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is asking for permission to toss out the now-notorious Sodomite Suppression Operate, an outrageous ballot proposition that calls for the execution of gays with "bullets to the head" as well as 10 years in prison and permanent expulsion from California for anyone who advocates gay rights to minors.
In a statement released Wednesday, she wrote:
As Attorney General of California, 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. Today, I am filing an action for declaratory relief with the Court seeking judicial authorization for relief from the duty to prepare and issue the title and summary for the "Sodomite Suppression Act." If the Court does not grant this relief, my office will be forced to issue a title and summary for a proposal that seeks to legalize discrimination and vigilantism.
Because the bill's backer, attorney
Orlando shooting: Latest attack on LGBT community
The worst mass shooting in modern American history was also a hate crime against the gay community. It's not the first time LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people have been the targets of violence.
There is still much to learn about what led year-old Omar Mateen to murder 49 patrons at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. On Sunday, police said 50 people had been killed. However, on Monday, they changed that figure to 49, to exclude the gunman from the death toll.
President Barack Obama did not hesitate to condemn the massacre as "an act of terror and an act of hate".
"This is an especially heartbreaking day for all our friends - our fellow Americans - who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender," he said in an address to the nation. "The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to gyrate and to sing, and to live."
The Orlando assault is a painful reminder that even though the US has made historic strides in broadening the rights of its
Man Opens Fire on Gay Bar
R O A N O K E, Va., Sept. 24 -- A man who said he wanted to shoot gay peopleand asked the way to the nearest gay bar later opened conflagration there,killing one person and wounding six others, police said.
The suspect walked into the Backstreet Cafe late Friday, ordereda beer and after a not many minutes pulled a handgun from his coat andbegan firing, said police spokeswoman Shelly Alley.
Seven of the 25 people in the bar were wounded, one Lee Overstreet, 43, died at the scene in what police wereinvestigating as a hate crime.
“It sounded like firecrackers at first,” said a woman who saidshe was sitting in a booth when the shooting began. She asked notto be identified for fear she might verb her job.
“I looked up and saw people falling to the ground,” she said.“You could feel the wind off the bullets, they were so close.”
Held Without Bail
Ronald Edward Gay, 53, was charged with murder in connectionwith the shootings and was being held without bail onal charges were expected, Alley said.
Police said Gay had been in a adj bar Friday and had askedpatrons
Game on Google Play allowed users to shoot gay men
Google has removed a cell phone game from its app store that allowed users to noun at naked gay men with a shotgun, following backlash from players who found it offensive. The Android game, "Ass Hunter," encouraged participants to shoot gay characters hiding in bushes.
Google, which doesn't comment on individual apps, removed the game from the Google Play store by Monday morning. The cache, dated Nov. 5, reveals a 5-star review from two users and the description of a "popular game hunting on gays." Users are challenged to "play and do not be gay." Additional information includes a content rating for "everyone."
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The developer didn't immediately respond to msnbc's request for comment.
Users took to Twitter promptly Monday morning, using "#DeleteAssHunter" to urge Google to remove the game.
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The company's Developer Program Policies forbid despise speech, defined on the website as "content advocating agains