Editing Gary North (economist) (section)

====Range of capital offenses====
North favored [[capital punishment]] for a range of offenders, including murderers, blasphemers, children who curse their parents,<ref>On the subject of executing children, North wrote, "When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime... The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death". Gary North, ''The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments'' (Tyler, Tex.: Institute for Christian Economics, 1986), p. 59.</ref> male homosexuals, and other people who commit some of the [[List of capital crimes in the Torah|acts deemed capital offenses]] in the [[Old Testament]].<ref name=BD23>Gary North, ''Boundaries and Dominion'' (1994), [http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/html/gnbd/Chapter23 chapter 23]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref><ref>Sugg, John (December 2005). [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/12/nation-under-god "A Nation Under God."] [[Mother Jones (magazine)|''Mother Jones'']]</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Sugg|first=John|date=July–August 2006|title=Warped Worldview|url=https://www.au.org/church-state/julyaugust-2006-church-state/featured/warped-worldview|journal=Church & State|publisher=[[Americans United for Separation of Church and State]]|access-date=July 28, 2013|archive-date=October 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024072424/https://www.au.org/church-state/julyaugust-2006-church-state/featured/warped-worldview}}</ref> (North believed that the death penalty for [[sabbath breaking]] and some other crimes no longer applies.<ref name=BD23 />) North stated that the [[The Bible and homosexuality#Leviticus 18 and 20|biblical admonition]] to kill homosexuals in the [[Book of Leviticus]] is God's "law and its morally appropriate sanction", arguing that "God is indeed a [[Homophobia|homophobe]]" who "hates the practice [of homosexuality] and those who practice it" and "hates the sin and hates the sinner."<ref name=boundaries>{{cite book | first=Gary | last=North | url=http://www.garynorth.com/Leviticus-v1.pdf |title=Boundaries and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Leviticus | edition=2nd  | volume=1 | pages=xxvi, 221}}</ref>

North said that capital punishment should be carried out by [[stoning]], because it is the biblically approved method of execution and it is cheap due to the plentiful and convenient supply of stones.<ref name="Clarkson">{{cite book|last=Clarkson|first=Frederick|title=Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash|chapter=Christian Reconstruction: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence|year=1995|publisher=[[South End Press]]|page=62|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fl6Ix9HFKQEC&pg=PA62|isbn=978-0-89608-523-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Vile |first=John R. |title=Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789–2002 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |year=2003 |isbn=1-85109-428-8 |edition=2nd |location=Santa Barbara, CA |page=67 |chapter=Christian Reconstruction |oclc=51553072 |quote=...North favors stoning,...because of the widespread availability of rocks... |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0IGUhxqUuYC&pg=PA67}}</ref> For non-capital offenses, North eschewed prisons as a punishment, but preferred "whipping, restitution in the form of indentured servitude, or slavery".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clarkson |first1=Frederick |author1-link=Frederick Clarkson |title=Christian Reconstructionism: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence |work=Political Research Associates |date=March 1994 |url=https://politicalresearch.org/1994/03/01/christian-reconstructionismtheocratic-dominionism-gains-influence |publisher=[[Political Research Associates]] |access-date=31 December 2024}}</ref>