Floods in Britain? You'll Never Guess What's to Blame

[theHandpuppet]

Floods! Earthquakes! Pestilence! Tsunamis! Is there no limit to OUR POWER!!!!!!!!!
That's right, you Leviticus Lovers! We're coming for YOUuuuuuuu............


Floods in Britain? You'll Never Guess What's to Blame
A British lawmaker has penned a homophobic rant in his local newspaper that blames marriage equality for flooding.
BY Lucas Grindley.
January 18 2014 1:53 PM ET

Guess why the weather has been so bad in the United Kingdom?

"The scriptures make it abundantly clear," says British lawmaker David Silvester in a letter to the local newspaper, "that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war."

Prime Minister David Cameron led passage of marriage equality there last year, and The Guardian notes that Silvester quit the Tory party over it. Now Silvester writes in the Henley Standard that, "It is his fault that large swaths of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods."

The letter goes on, and on, against Cameron and his support for same-sex marriage. At one point, he says Cameron only "sheds crocodile tears on behalf of destitute flooded homeowners.".... MORE at
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2014/01/18/floods-britain-youll-never-guess-whats-blame

[LeftishBrit]

1. UKIP is becoming more and more like a British version of the teabaggers

Silvester, by the way, is not a national lawmaker (MP); he is a local councillor in Henley on Thames, which is quite bad enough.

[theHandpuppet]

7. In some strange way it's comforting to know...

... we're not the only folks having to deal with these crazoids. Of course, on this side of the pond we also get hurricanes, which we gay folks deploy whenever we're displeased.

[Prophet 451]

8. They became that a few years ago

Thankfully, they have far less power than the Teabaggers.

[theHandpuppet]

9. Then you at least have that to be thankful for

Our teabaggers should serve as an object lesson. I wonder what folks abroad make of them.

[Prophet 451]

11. Um, the word "clown car" comes to mind

Really, those who don't follow US politics particularly closely (which is most Brits) see them as a mixture of racists and sore losers, throwing a giant hissy fit because they're not running things anymore.

[theHandpuppet]

12. Pretty apt description, really

Although in some parts of the country they still wield way too much power -- and they never give up. Right now they want to front a challenger to John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, because they don't think he's conservative enough! That's how bad it is.

[DemocraticWing]

2. I kissed a boy and my street flooded

Or some such nonsense.

[LiberalElite]

3. Oh for cryin' out loud

[GeorgeGist]

4. Please delete this crap ...

it serves no useful purpose.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Sorry, but no

These clowns should be publicly ridiculed... and often.

[Nye Bevan]

10. I actually find it interesting.

Traditionally there has been pretty much no US-style "religious right" in the UK. It is interesting to see an exception to this.

[theHandpuppet]

13. I regularly read some of the UK papers

Mostly from NI and Scotland but tune in to BBC news fairly regularly. They have their share of nutters too, it's just that we're so busy fending off our own they don't get much press over here.

[Fumesucker]

5. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Some innocent has to suffer if our culture is not to be destroyed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

[theHandpuppet]

14. Guess who just got shown the door?

The GOP should take a lesson.

The Belfast Telegraph
Ukip suspends gay rant councillor
19 January 2014

The UK Independence Party has suspended a councillor who claimed recent floods were the result of the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

David Silvester claimed the country had been "beset by storms" since the passage of the new law on gay marriage because David Cameron had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".

He was suspended by the party after defying a request not to do further interviews on his beliefs following his initial claims made in a letter to a local newspaper.

The move came as leader Nigel Farage launched a clearout of "extremist, nasty or barmy" views from the party ahead of polls in May....

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/ukip-suspends-gay-rant-councillor-29930117.html

[johnp3907]

15. "And now on Radio 4, it's time for the UKIP shipping forecast"

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/19/ukip-shipping-forecast-gay_n_4628625.html

[theHandpuppet]

16. That was hilarious

Thanks!

[johnp3907]

17. I saw it on Billy Bragg's facebook page earlier.

Had no idea what it was all about til I saw this post.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. That is brilliant!

I'm nicking that for the thread on this in the UK group, if you don't mind.

[pipi_k]

18. Why does god

Hate the UK?

Marriage equality has been a part of life here in Massachusetts for nearly a decade now but we haven't been overrun by locusts, poisonous frogs, floods, nail fungus, flying monkeys, or ukulele playing Tiny Tim poltergeists

And as far as I can from my little town in the western part of the state, the eastern half hasn't broken off and fallen into the ocean

[theHandpuppet]

19. Or maybe God just loves Massachusetts

After all, some nutters here have blamed our other natural disasters on GLBTs, including Katrina.

[hobbit709]

21. The US has no lock on extreme stoopid.