Blaming Katrina on Gays, Israel, and Man-on-Horse Sex

[RedEarth]

Blaming Katrina on Gays, Israel, and Man-on-Horse Sex
I've been stunned at how long it took a prominent member of the Christian right to blame the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina on America's cultural decadence and immorality. Finally, Rick Scarborough of Vision America has stepped up to the plate, blaming Katrina on gay marriage, man-on-horse sex, and Israel for evacuating a portion of the Messiah's planned landing strip. He did so Volume 1, Number 24 (definitely not to be confused with a Bible verse) of his weekly email newsletter, the Scarborough Report, which you can subscribe to here. (Since you can't view Scarborough's latest newsletter online right now, I'm going to excerpt his statement at length.)

Scarborough declared:

After September 11, 2001, "God bless America" was on everyone's lips. But what, exactly, are we asking God to bless - a nation moving a breakneck speed toward homosexual marriage, a nation awash in pornography, a nation in which our children are indoctrinated in perversion in the public schools, a nation in which most public displays of The Ten Commandments are considered offensive to the Constitution, a nation in which the elite does all in its considerable power to efface our Biblical heritage?

We are sowing the wind. Surely, we shall reap the whirlwind.

One other factor which must be considered: Days before Katrina nearly wiped New Orleans off the map, 9,000 Jewish residents of Gaza were driven from their homes with the full support of the United States government. Could this be a playing out of prophesy ("I will bless that nation that blesses you, and curse the nation that curses you")?

Please read on. I want to give you two examples - from today's headlines - of how we are bringing disaster on ourselves. And then tell you what you can do - right now, today - to begin to reverse the process.

So what were Scarborough's examples of "how we are bringing disaster on ourselves?" First, he cited California's AB 849, a bill changing the definition of marriage in that state from "a man and a woman" to "two persons." Scarborough's second example was even weirder, and more reflective of the Christian right's curious focus on, shall we say, unorthodox sex acts. Check out what he wrote:

http://maxblumenthal.blogspot.com/2005/09/blaming-katrina-on-gays-israel-and-man.html

[Lengsel]

1. oh lord

Shouldn't God be attacking Israel?

If God really caused natural disasters because of "sin" then the world would have exploded long ago.

Was the USA better off in the 50s when it was ok to hang and cut a black man's balls off?

Was the USA better in the 1800s when slavery was legal and you could rape you female slaves no matter how young they are?

Was the USA ok when Matthew Shepard was murderered?

Was the USA ok when we stole the land from Native Ameriacns and committed acts of genocide?

Was the USA ok when we stole the land from Mexico?


Seriously, in the bible, every passsage I read about homosexuality is in the context of rape.

[H2O Man]

2. These things are

about as true as if they said God was angry about a little league baseball game.