Police: Lansdowne man stoned to death, Old Testament style for homosexual advances

[RamboLiberal]

Police have arrested an Upper Darby man who they say confessed to stoning to death 70-year-old Murray Seidman because he was making "homosexual advances." In his interview with police this week, John Thomas, 28, cited the Old Testament in explaining the murder, police say. Seidman was found dead in his Lansdowne apartment in January.

"I stoned Murrary with a rock in a sock," Thomas told police, according to the criminal complaint.

The complaint states: "John Thomas stated that he read in the Old Testament that homosexuals should be stoned in certain situations. The answer John Thomas received from his prayers was to put an end to the victim's life. John Thomas stated that he struck the victim approximately 10 times in the head. After the final blow, John Thomas made sure the victim was dead."

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/delco/Elderly-Lansdowne-man-stoned.html

[leftstreet]

1. Did they actually put the rocks in socks in the OT?

I thought everyone wore sandals

[Cid_B]

19. Makes me think of "Life of Brian"

No one... is to stone anyone... until I blow this whistle!

[Dappleganger]

2. We need to keep out Sharia law!!!

Oh, wait...

[atreides1]

3. Right

Had nothing to do with the fact that the accused was "the executor and sole beneficiary of Seidman's will".

[gratuitous]

4. Sure, blame God for being a bloodthirsty murderous thug

Has to work better than the truth.

[Mulhane]

5. Someone needs to read the OT

"Bloodthirsty murderous thug" is letting Yahweh off easy.

[nichomachus]

6. +1

[gratuitous]

8. Nothing wrong with having a fifth grade understanding of the Bible

As long as you're in the fifth grade.

[golddigger]

11. I guess you haven't read the Bible.

[Bluebear]

14. The Bible DOES say to stone homosexuals. Period.

Why excuse it?

[gratuitous]

15. Really?

Where does the Bible use the word "homosexual"?

[FreeState]

20. Leviticus 20:13

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."  Hmm sounds like homosexuals to me, after all you don't see heterosexual men making love to other men.
 
The word homosexual is a modern invention and isn't in the bible - but you don't need a modern word when it's clear who the authors are referring to.

[originalpckelly]

22. Umm, yeah, actually, straight dudes do get it on with other guys.

After all, just because one has sex with a man, doesn't mean that he's gay, in the same way that a gay man can have sex with a woman and he's not magically straight.

Or at least that's what I tell my straight friends right after I get them really drunk...and we...

[FreeState]

23. The verse is talking about sex between man and wife

Sex outside of marriage was not allowed by the Jewish law - it's referring to love making not sex.

[gratuitous]

24. So, no homosexual, no stoning

Yep, you're making an airtight case.

[originalpckelly]

21. Um, yeah, I'm gonna have to call you on your obvious bullshit/ignorance:

"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

--Leviticus 20:13 KJV

But you know, it doesn't say anything about standing...

Hmmm...

Best loophole of the last 6,000 years!

I think it really should have read:
Ye shall not giveth if ye shall not taketh!

Now that's advice for m4m and those who don't even know the religion they attempt to defend!

So sayeth the Sheppard, so sayeth the flock!

[Angry Dragon]

7. Sounds like the Bible is turning into a terrorist handbook

[superduperfarleft]

9. Clearly radical christianists are a threat to our way of life.

Protesting the funerals of soldiers, assassinating doctors who provide a legal service, and now murdering gay people.

I look forward to the congressional hearings on this growing threat.

[Permanut]

10. What about that pesky 6th commandment...

You know, Thomas, the one about not murdering people? Were you out sick the day that was covered in Sunday school?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. I was leaning toward a case of schizophrenia induced religious paranoia

Until I read the murderer was sole beneficiary of the victims will.

[Vogon_Glory]

13. Executor And Sole Beneficiary Of Seidman's Will

"Executor and sole beneficiary of Seidman's will," Hmmm. As an occasional murder mystery reader, I found that part of the story interesting. Sounds like a warped religionist might have been mixing G*d and Mammon as motives for killing.

[Toucano]

17. +1 The "homosexual advances" is just a ploy.

Always follow the money.

[ReggieVeggie]

16. I think eye for an eye applies here

time to put John Thomas down

[TorchTheWitch]

18. damn, just a few miles away from me

How horrible.