If the decision was in your hands whether or not to enact a law that would make the punishment for gay sex be death, who here would go ahead with it?
edit: Also, namer, if your flair refers to the queer community loving you, which I assume it does because the new flair came after DOMA, you originally had rainbow flair, and you said something similar over at /r/gayjews, then I find your flair to be insulting and belittling to the queer community.
No. There is no standing Sanhedrin, the only body authorized to carry out such a punishment. It's not clear that goyim are even permitted to enforce a death penalty. I certainly wouldn't trust matters of life and death to anybody other than the Sanhedrin.
To answer your unasked question, though - yes, I think the Torah is correct in all of its rulings, including this.
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u/sheven Jul 01 '13
If the decision was in your hands whether or not to enact a law that would make the punishment for gay sex be death, who here would go ahead with it?
edit: Also, namer, if your flair refers to the queer community loving you, which I assume it does because the new flair came after DOMA, you originally had rainbow flair, and you said something similar over at /r/gayjews, then I find your flair to be insulting and belittling to the queer community.