The utter power and strength of the LGBTQ community allows us to control the course and potency of hurricanes, floods, fires, droughts, and pandemics. Thus, we get to determine who lives and who dies, who retains their treasured belongings and who gets wiped out and washed away. That is, if you believe the theocratic right who hold us responsible for causing many of the greatest un natural disasters of modern times — and this goes back centuries. In C.
Tony Perkins blamed gay people for God's wrath. His house was swept away
God and Natural Disasters: It’s Not Only the Queers’ Fault Anymore - The Good Men Project
By moral decay, they typically mean abortion or homosexuality. Perkins also frequently compares homosexuality to pedophilia. We had about 10 feet of water at the end of our driveway. Our house flooded, a few of our cars flooded. You could be forgiven for thinking of this as some kind of twisted justice, or at least as a delicious bit of divine irony.
Snopes needs your help! Learn more. Claim: Televangelist Pat Robertson said he did not know whom to blame for recent flooding in Texas. Origins: In late May , severe weather including heavy rains and flooding in Texas killed at least four residents and caused widespread destruction.
LGBTQ Americans have caused the country billions of dollars in structural damage, killed dozens of people, and displaced thousands more from their homes, according to the evangelical figures who believe gay people caused Hurricane Harvey. Despite overwhelming evidence that adverse weather and climate change had a hand to play in the storm that has devastated parts of Texas, numerous voices emerged that suggested the biblical proportions of the flood were, well, literally biblical. Among those crying "science be damned" and waving their pitchforks in the general direction of the LGBT community over the past week were minister Kevin Swanson, who believes the Bible preaches death to gays, and the similarly delightful radio host Rick Wiles, who thinks Ebola would be a handy way to wipe out the LGBT community. Swanson said on his show: "Jesus sends the message home, unless Americans repent, unless Houston repents, unless New Orleans repents, they will all likewise perish. Wiles also observed, in comments carried by Right Wing Watch: "Here's a city that has boasted of its LGBT devotion, its affinity for the sexual perversion movement in America.