You won’t hear Pat Robertson say that.
Pat Robertson said the 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles County’s San Fernando Valley in 1994, which caused about $25 billion in damage and 72 deaths, was due to God’s anger at the Gays.
He also claimed that because of gays having an unofficial Gay Day at Disney World in 1988 the approaching storm off the Atlantic would strike Orlando, Florida. Hurricane Bonnie missed God’s chosen target hitting Hampton Roads, Virginia, where Robertson’s 700 Club is based instead.
In response to 9/11 Jerry Falwell opined on Robertson’s 700 Club,
“I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularized America. I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.’”
Pat, of course, agreed.
Even though it was Arch-conservative Orthodox rabbi Yehuda Levin who claimed that the earthquake originating in Virginia in 2011 was caused by gay people, Pat Robertson added that he believed that individuals “who act kind of gay” were behind it.
Hurricane Katrina was caused by New Orleans’s annual gay party, Southern Decadence., an according to John Haggee,
“God caused Hurricane Katrina to wipe out New Orleans because it had a gay pride parade the week before and was filled with sexual sin.”
Pam Olsen, the founder of the Florida Prayer Network and member of Rick Perry’s 2012 campaign team believed that
“God is not one that is going to wink at sin. God is shaking. If anybody looks at the news and has just seen what’s been happening recently with the floods, the fires, the tornadoes, God is shaking. Yeah I think you have God shaking, sure you have the enemy shaking, you have both and I don’t want to say oh that’s the judgment of God or that’s the enemy. But the reality is God is judging us, and I think it’s going to get worse.”
With the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011, Cindy Jacobs of the Generals International ministry of Red Oak, Texas, connected the catastrophe in the Pacific and the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”.
She quoted the Book of Josiah: “When we break God’s law, it actually causes cycles of nature to come afterwards.”
After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Mike Huckabee suggested that children in a “natural family of a father and mother” would not grow up to be murderers. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson interpreted the tragedy as God’s revenge for a growing acceptance of gay rights.
So besides extreme weather, death and destruction around the world, Gays cause people to shoot kids.
The religious right blamed the Illinois tornadoes of 2012 on the state’s Gay marriage laws.
Contact your human services supplier immediately if your erection proceeds with longer than for a long time. generika viagra So, it’s better for male to avoid the hot spots such as saunas and shower room. 3.It is associated with the long time. cialis where If you have SOD, drinking alcohol will create stomach and abdominal pains. brand cialis prices Do not take kamagra oral jelly after consuming alcohol. buy levitra
In 2014, Susanne Atanus, the GOP nominee for the Illinois 9th district told the Daily Herald that God had visited everything from tornadoes to autism to dementia upon the earth a punishment for Gay marriage.
Gay marriage doesn’t just cause singular events like tornadoes and terrorism, but it can also cause recessions. According to Rick Santorum, the implosion of the financial sector in 2008 was caused by the moral breakdown caused by gay marriage’s societal corrosion.
“If you look at the root cause of the economic problems that we’re dealing with on Wall Street and Main Street I might add, from 2008, they were huge moral failings, And you can’t say that we’re gonna take morality out of the public square, morality out of our schools, God out of our schools, and then expect people to behave decently in a country that requires, capitalism requires some strong modicum of moral consciousness if it’s gonna be successful.”
I’m sure you get the idea.
If there is any type of disaster it is the result of God’s wrath for turning our backs on Him.
So, riddle me this.
One year ago this past month the Houston City Council passed an anti-discrimination ordinance, but opponents succeeded in putting the matter to a referendum. The measure failed by a vote of 61 percent to 39 percent.
Out went equal protections for the GLBT citizens of the community there.
They no longer have their brief protections in housing, employment, city contracting, and business services.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, told cheering opponents who had managed to repeal the ordinance, “I’m glad Houston led tonight to end this constant political-correctness attack on what we know in our heart and our gut as Americans is not right.”
Certainly God would reward them mightily for this.
Now, on what should have been the anniversary of the ordinance, the news out of Houston is that large areas of suburban communities southwest of Houston are under water and hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes before the Brazos River crested at nearly 54 feet in Fort Bend County, just two years after it had run dry in places because of drought, and just a few month after the Houston ordinance was repealed.
This is the rainy season, so the delay between repeal and floods is acceptable. After all, those Gay induced tornadoes only happen during the annual tornado season.
More than 80,000 people in Houston are without power and the flood waters closed roads including Interstate 10 and Interstate 45. Houston was among 24 counties where Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster on Monday.
Perhaps God liked that ordinance.
Can’t blame this one on the Gays. It’s Texas, and Gays don’t have much there.
There will be some, if not many who will say that there is actually no connection and that repealing the ordinance cannot possibly be seen as causing floods, but neither did all those other things related to Gay people cause all of the disasters religious conservatives claim.
If you accept one, you have to accept the other.