Knew it had to happen, just wasn't sure which lunatic was going to say it first.

[William769]

Anti-Gay Preacher Blames Hurricane Sandy On Homosexuality And Marriage Equality

A Christian religious leader has already claimed that Hurricane Sandy is further proof that “God is systematically destroying America” as political judgment for the “homosexual agenda.” John McTernan previously made similar allusions about Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Isaac (2012), which he reiterated in his urgent call to prayer posted Sunday evening (via Gay Star News):

Just last August, Hurricane Isaac hit New Orleans seven years later, on the exact day of Hurricane Katrina. Both hit during the week of the homosexual event called Southern Decadence in New Orleans!

McTernan believes that it is noteworthy that Hurricane Sandy is hitting 21 years after the “Perfect Storm,” because 3 is a “significant number with God”:

Twenty-one years breaks down to 7 x 3, which is a significant number with God. Three is perfection as the Godhead is three in one while seven is perfection.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/10/29/1104901/anti-gay-preacher-blames-hurricane-sandy-on-homosexuality-and-marriage-equality/

[treestar]

1. Insane.

Was the good weather of the previous week a reward for the homosexual agenda? This guy should have lived in the 16th century, not this one.

[onehandle]

2. I blame Homosexuality And Marriage Equality in headlines on Fundies. nt

[xchrom]

3. We have no shortage of lunatics. Nt

[oswaldactedalone]

4. Ignorance is a terrible thing

Only an American moran could be so hughly stupid.

[enlightenment]

5. Does this lunatic realize he's essentially practicing numerology?

McTernan believes that it is noteworthy that Hurricane Sandy is hitting 21 years after the “Perfect Storm,” because 3 is a “significant number with God”:

Twenty-one years breaks down to 7 x 3, which is a significant number with God. Three is perfection as the Godhead is three in one while seven is perfection.

Slippery slope there, reverend . . . next thing you know, you'll be reading tarot cards to divine what the bible is telling you.

[gollygee]

6. So do the preachers send out press releases or do the news people know who to ask

to find out when someone says this? There's always a story and we always hear it pretty quickly. Either they're publicizing it, or the news people are looking for it.

[Tanuki]

7. How does he know it isn't b/c Billy Graham endorsed a Mormon for president? n/t

[LovePeacock]

8. Good. I'm glad. I like it when conservatives spread their hate.

Let people be reminded on a daily basis that conservatives are the pro-hate party.

[felix_numinous]

9. What about the liberals, the Muslims

and all the other heathens? Somebody's slacking in freeperland. This is a big storm and there must be more to blame here.

[psychmommy]

10. Seven is the number of completion.

Lol @Billy Graham endorsing a mormon.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. It really makes you wonder if they think that hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and

other natural disasters are something that God recently created to punish the LGBT community. Ignorant, ignorant people.

[hifiguy]

12. Why are people like this allowed to run loose,

unmedicated and unsupervised? If you can babble out the words "gawd" and "jeebus" they're apparently a get-out-of-the-nuthouse-free card in this country. Batshit is as batshit does.

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Whadda jerk. Everyone knows it's because the Giants won the world series.

( Ya know... San Francisco, and all?)

[Jim Lane]

27. No, it's the other way around.

God was planning to smite the Giants to punish San Francisco. It was supposed to be Tigers in four. But then He decided that the problem wasn't just San Francisco, but was much broader, so He went to work on the hurricane. Distracted by that task, He forgot about fixing the World Series.

[Ikonoklast]

14. Gee, if I was that stupid I would try to hide it from people.

This guy is so proud of his superstitious idiocy, he wants the entire world to see what a fool he is.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. "Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." Mencken

[GoneOffShore]

18. Excellent!

[hifiguy]

19. 'twas ever thus. nt

[Lucy Goosey]

16. Canada has had marriage equality for 7 years or so...

...and they've had gays serving openly in the military since '93 - and Canada does not have anywhere near the amount of hurricanes (or tornados, or tropical storms) that the US has. How do loons like this guy explain that sort of discrepancy? I've always wondered what these people say to themselves about that.

[dawg]

22. You are protected by the poutine.

[GoneOffShore]

17. Another wingnut preacher? Is there something in the water?

I hope someday we will successfully be able to breed the "religious gene" out of the human race.

[Qutzupalotl]

20. How do we know it's not because of our FISA law?

Or our stance on steel tariffs?

[raccoon]

21. I thought God was P.O.'d at the mob. nt

[onecent]

23. BWAAAAAAA Doncha just LOVE it??????????????????????????????????? Well hell, I know last

week this would have BEEN A GIFT FROM GOD. Assholes

[Ohio Joe]

24. Yeah... Theres a surprise

Stupid fundies make me sick.

[HopeHoops]

25. (yawn) - one of them always does.

[Sgent]

26. Do these idiots ever read their Bible

that the preach about?

Specifically the story of Noah, where God promises to never again destroy the world by flood? So God is now a liar?