Spencer Macnaughton:[…]I’m speaking with Doug Wilson[…]Wilson has recently attracted national attention for his connection to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth[…]
SM: Is this the first LGBTQ publication you’ve done an interview with?
DW: I believe that is… I think that’s fair, yes[…]
SM: So then in your ideal world, gay men engaging in sexual behavior would be illegal under sodomy laws across all 50 states. You’ve mentioned, though, that you wouldn’t want it to be too heavily enforced because you don’t want to create a, quote, “sexual Gestapo.” So how exactly would this be enforced?
DW: Well, I would say that the main enforcement mechanism would be social expectations and a withholding of societal approval. It would be sort of “back in the closet, boys,” not because of fear of legal retribution, but because this is simply not done[…]
SM: OK, so just theoretically, I get caught having sex with my boyfriend, what happens to me? What is the punishment?
DW: In the 1980s, there was a movement called Christian Reconstruction. And the Christian Reconstructionists wanted to take the Old Testament law[…]I pointed out that King Asa and King Jehoshaphat in the Old Testament closed the bathhouses, and they exiled the sodomites from the land. And their behavior is praised in the text. That told me that execution, although a lawful penalty for homosexual behavior, was not the minimum penalty; it was the maximum penalty
SM: And do you believe that still, that in your eyes the maximum penalty for homosexual behavior in an ideal world, in Pastor Wilson’s ideal world, would be execution?
DW: Yeah[…]
DW: No, no, no. That’s why I wanted to finish this scenario. I do want to create a society where the maximum penalty for a Roman Catholic priest molesting or raping an altar boy is solved and addressed with a tall tree and a short rope
SM: Right, that’s pedophilia though, which is of course different than homosexuality
DW: Well, it’s a species of homosexual behavior