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Will Kamala Harris Block an Initiative Proposal that Legalizes Killing Homosexuals?

The "Sodomite Suppression Act" calls for gays and lesbians in California to be put to death by "bullets to the head."
on February 10, 2015 in Menlo Park, California.

on February 10, 2015 in Menlo Park, California.

Photographer: Justin Sullivan
By
David Knowles

California Attorney General Kamala Harris is facing a legal paradox. 

On the one hand, she must uphold the state law that allows residents to pay $200 and submit initiatives for their possible consideration by the voters. On the other, the one being proposed by Huntington Beach lawyer Matt McLaughlin, which seeks to legalize the killing of homosexuals, is so odious that it makes a mockery of the law itself.