Oklahoma Candidate Scott Esk Says Stoning Gays To Death Would Be 'Just'

An Oklahoma House candidate is under fire for appearing to endorse the death penalty for gays and lesbians.

Scott Esk, a Tea Party candidate, made the controversial comments last year on Facebook in response to Pope Francis asking “Who am I to judge?” gay priests.

Esk argued that Leviticus 20:13 gives people the right to judge others.

“So just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning),” a commenter asked.

“I think we would be totally in the right to do it,” Esk responded. “That goes against some parts of Libertarianism, I realize, and I'm largely Libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

Esk was asked about the comments by TheMooreDaily.com.

“What I will tell you right now is that that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God,” Esk said. “And in that time it was totally just, it came directly from God. I have no plans to, you know, reinstate that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge moral misgivings about those types of sins.”

Tony Stevenson, executive director of LGBT advocacy group Equality Network, said in a statement that Esk's “rhetoric demonstrates that he is an ineffective leader and would be a bad representation of Oklahoma values at the State Capitol.”

Esk did not return numerous calls placed by Oklahoma City's NewsChannel 4. Oklahoma's Republican primary takes place June 24.

Expect more emboldened hate speech from teabaggers with the defeat of Republican Eric Cantor in Virginia to an anti-gay Christian elitist.

The only way of stopping these people is shutting them out of taking the Senate and hopefully losing the House.

Moral of the story...get out there and VOTE, stop this country from turning into a faux Christian theocracy.