A Christian lawyer has filed a ballot initiative to execute all gay people in California ‘by bullets to the head.’

Matt McLaughlin, 45, submitted his draft Sodomite Suppression Act to the justice department on 24 February.

The bill says gay sex is a ‘monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.’

‘Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating-wickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method,’ it reads.

In language reminiscent of Russia’s anti-gay law, the bill would also ban ‘sodomistic propaganda’ and fine offenders $1 million per occurrence and/or up to 10 years in prison and/or banishment from California for life.

McLaughlin also seeks to bar gay citizens from public office, public employment and public benefits, and wants the text of the act displayed prominently in every public school classroom.

The Huntington Beach lawyer said if the state did not the enforce the law, the public should to be able to kill gay people ‘extra-judicially, immune from any charge and indemnified by the state against any and all liability.’

The initiative needs signatures from 5% of the electorate, about 350,000 people, for it to move forward.

Read the Sodomite Suppression Act in full below: