The most comprehensive response to this asshattery was a comment on MSN.com by someone named Angela Blue pointing out the uber-hypocrisy:

Can you imagine the nuclear-level shitfit some conservatives would have if a liberal clerk refused to issue someone a gun licence because they didn’t like firearms? They’d be furious, and you know, rightly so. People have a right to expect public officials to follow the law, even if they don’t agree with it. If you…

The whole thing is do to the caste system they have. The Girl from the higher ranked caste chose not to marry someone she was arranged with and eloped with the brother from a lower ranked one. So they are taking the punishment out on the brother’s sisters. Couple that with women being almost like property there and…

and then this poor child will get pregnant and so they will stone her to death for being an unmarried pregnant woman. the levels of wtf here are so much i want to go live in a deep dark cave with no internet.

It said “by the council,” but I’m honestly not sure if the punishment was decided by the council, or if the council is also the one meting it out. Either way, fucking disgusting.

Whenever I see this meme, I instantly think:

It should be noted that this is not two women. One is a child.

And of course those men who decided the “punishment” would also like to do the raping right? In the name of “justice”. Those fuckers. I say take the women and children out then nuke that town, any place that still believe in these kinds of things should be wiped off the map. Sorry, just reading all about that makes me…