‘Death to gays’ says Republican candidate.

In 2014, when Scott Esk first ran for statewide office in Oklahoma, he was asked about a comment he made publicly on Facebook the previous year in response to a question about whether homosexuals should be executed, “presumably by stoning”.

“I think we would be totally in the right to do it,” he wrote. “…ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss,” said this religious Neanderthal. (No offense intended to Neanderthals.)

During his run for office, Esk defended his past hate speech by stating that executing homosexuals is a matter of Old Testament law that “came directly from God.”

He asked, “Well, does that make me a homophobe? Maybe some people think it does. But as far as I and many of the voters of House District 87 are concerned, it simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should.” 

Sadly, Esk is on biblically firm ground. (Leviticus 20:13)

^{Stoning was the Jewish version of the lynch mob.}

I learned today that this loving Christian is running again for state office in the upcoming 2022 Oklahoma primary!

Voters in Oklahoma should know that in 2012, court documents revealed there was a formal investigation by the Department of Public Safety which determined that this pious prig had threatened gun violence against, and publicly harassed through email and social media, his minister as well as an elder at the Church of Christ where he attended. This, because they granted his then-wife permission to divorce him on grounds of “physical and mental abuse” of her and their children.

On appeal, Esk’s complaint to the judge was that he was being deprived of his God-given right to discipline his kids (Proverbs 13:24) to which the court responded, “So we’re here because you haven’t had enough opportunity to beat up your boys. Is that what you’re telling me?”

“I think that’s an important factor, sir,” Esk responded.

(Sidebar: Once again, biblically, Esk is correct. Leviticus 20:9 says a child who shows disrespect to his father or mother should be put to death.)

Although he is backing off on the death penalty for being gay, Scott Esk is now campaigning to change Oklahoma’s divorce laws to be biblically consistent with Christ’s teaching against divorce ‘for any reason except adultery’. (Matthew 5:31-32)

(Sidebar: ‘Gentle Jesus meek and mild’ also said that by divorce, a man makes his wife an adulteress. And, according to Mosaic law, adultery is also punishable by death. (Leviticus 20:10) So a husband can divorce his wife and have her stoned to death…ha, like “killing two birds with one stone.” By the way, according to Jewish law, only a husband has the right to divorce!)

With the perverse political events that continue to gain momentum in the alternate universe of the Christian-dominated Republican Party, I am actually frightened to to see how many votes candidate Esk manages to attract in November!