A 28-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder after telling police he stoned to death a 70-year-old man after the senior citizen allegedly made unwanted sexual advances toward him. John Joe Thomas told police he beat Murray Seidman
using a sock that was stuffed with rocks because he read in the Old Testament that homosexuals should be stoned to death. The elderly man was hit in the head about 10 times, police said. The relationship between the two is not known, but police
said Thomas was the sole beneficiary of Seidman's will. Thomas said he received a message in his prayers that he must kill Seidman. And indeed The Bible does seems to back up Thomas and his resort to violence:
"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." (Leviticus 20:13 New American Bible)
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