Heath tries to quell storm (Me. fundie blames hurricane on ... guess who?

[kweerwolf]

Gay rights supporters in Maine gained little solace Wednesday from a religious conservative group's defense of its suggestion that Hurricane Katrina's landfall might have purposefully coincided with a gay pride celebration in New Orleans.

"The view that such events are caused by God is a matter of opinion - faith if you will - and are not capable of proof," Michael Heath, the executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, wrote in Wednesday's edition of the group's online newsletter. "Every man must decide for himself whether or not Hurricane Katrina brought the wrath of God down on New Orleans.

"So we are not blaming the homosexuals for the disaster," continued Heath, whose group is spearheading the "people's veto" campaign aimed at repealing Maine's new gay rights law at the Nov. 8 referendum.

The linkage of Katrina and gay rights sparked outrage among defenders of the new Maine law, which extends the state's anti-discrimination laws to homosexuals in the area of housing, employment, education, lodging and lending.

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=119628

[YOY]

1. Jeebity Jeebus!!!

Jeebity Jeebus! Jeebity Jeebus! Jeebity Jeebus! Jeebity Jeebus! Jeebity jeebity jeebity jeebity!!!

That's honestly all I can hear whenever they speak.

You know...if it really was "God's doing", then God is a real dick.

[kweerwolf]

2. And you'd think God would have a better calendar ...

... seeing how he missed Southern Decadence by about a week.

Make me wonder if the ol' fire-n-brimstone routine was meant for someplace other than Sodom and Gomorrah. Like maybe he was aiming for some city where the people all presumed to speak for God and claimed they alone knew what God had in mind, and just missed by a few miles. :shrug: