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Conversely, Christian Reconstructionism's founder, Rousas John Rushdoony, wrote in The Institutes of Biblical Law ( the founding document of reconstructionsim ), that Old Testament law should be applied to modern society and advocates the reinstatement of the Mosaic law's penal sanctions.

Under such a system, the list of civil crimes which carried a death sentence would include homosexuality, adultery, incest, lying about one's virginity, bestiality, witchcraft, idolatry or apostasy, public blasphemy, false prophesying, kidnapping, rape, and bearing false witness in a capital case.

In short, he sought to cast a vision for the reconstruction of society that mirrors exactly what the Reconstructionism movement's harshest critics claim.