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A candidate for Oklahoma House District 91 in Cleveland County is coming under fire for a response he made to a 2013 Facebook post.Watch the reportThe comments made by Scott Esk were discovered by Rob Morris, who runs the Moore Monthly and TheMooreDaily.com.Also read: Fort Sill, Lawton community prepare for immigrant childrenEsk describes himself as a conservative on his website and a libertarian in the comment stream on Facebook. In a July 2013 Facebook post, a Facebook user quoted Pope Francis after he said it was not his place to judge homosexuality.Esk responded, citing several biblical scriptures. The original poster asked Esk if he was in support of executing homosexuals."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."Morris found the responses while doing research on candidates. During a phone interview, Morris asked Esk about the responses."What I will tell you right now is 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, re-institute that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge moral misgivings about those kinds of sins."Esk's rhetoric has some in Oklahoma upset."If he were really serious about applying biblical principles in the state of Oklahoma, he should start with the most important of all, which is to love your neighbor as you love yourself," said Scott Hamilton, executive director of the Cimarron Alliance Equality Center.We tried repeatedly to contact Scott Esk for this story, but he did not return our calls.The Republican primary election will be held June 24.