We can now add “Dr. Chaps” Gordon Klingenschmitt to the ever-growing list of anti-gay Religious Right activists defending Russia’s anti-gay law, declaring on his “Pray In Jesus Name” show today that “it should be illegal to recruit minors into homosexual sin.”

In defending Russia’s law, Klingenschmitt explained that recruiting children into homosexuality is “totally illegal in the economy and law of God” and, citing Luke 17, declared that “if you’re recruiting children into sin, Jesus says you should have the death penalty.”

“It’s always going to be against God’s law,” he said, “not only to be gay but especially to recruit children and cause them to stumble”: