Let he who is without... flipper?

A friend forwarded me this little gem (I swear I wouldn't be caught dead reading the douche rag that is HuffPo) about the American Family Association's spin of how SeaWorld should handle that murderous mammal, Tillikum:  Stoning.  Because scripture says so.  But of course!

Says the ancient civil code of Israel, "When an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner shall not be liable." (Exodus 21:28)

 And it gets even better.  Apparently, according to these ravenous loons, Tilly should be thrust against the wall alongside the training manager, Chuck Thompson, as well. 

But, the Scripture soberly warns, if one of your animals kills a second time because you didn't kill it after it claimed its first human victim, this time you die right along with your animal. To use the example from Exodus, if your ox kills a second time, "the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death." (Exodus 21:29)

Just so we're clear, Exodus is same book that Moses was set adrift in a raft like some message in a bottle...  supposedly waved his staff and did this... talked to a flaming bush and came down with these...   so I'm not sure how reliable a source it is to determine the sentence anyway. 

Seriously, are these people ever going to realize that it's not the friggin' 3rd century anymore?  And could a calculatedly innocuous name like American Family Association be any less genuine or more sinister?  Whale stoning aside, I'm sure you could guess where these people stand on things.  Sadly, it's not on the slippery edge of a SeaWorld holding tank.