It's Gaynado Season!

[stromboli]

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/11/6_most_absurd_things_the_christian_right_has_blamed_on_gays_partner/

“We have displeased the Lord and the earth is going to answer,” so-called prophet Cindy Jacobs warned in advance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act last summer. If this warning sounds familiar, it should: right wingers have a long history of blaming everything from earthquakes to recession to climate change on the advance of gay marriage, and they’re only getting more ridiculous.

1. Autism and Tornados

Susanne Atanus, the GOP nominee for the Illinois 9th, is the most recent conservative to blame ills and plagues on gay marriage, and she’s not choosy. She told the Daily Herald earlier this year that God had visited everything from tornados to autism and dementia upon the earth as punishment for gay marriage.

“Everybody knows that God controls weather,” she said in the Windy City Times. “God is super angry. Gay marriage is not appropriate, and it doesn’t look right, and it breeds AIDS.”

She was a candidate for the GOP nomination when she said that. A few weeks ago she won the primary by five percentage points.

2. Climate Change

Something about floods brings out the biblical in conservatives. At least that’s one possible explanation for British politician David Silvester’s blaming recent floods on gay marriage. After British Prime Minister David Cameron went “arrogantly against the gospel” and changed the law to allow same-sex marriages, Silvester said the country had been “beset by storms.”

He insisted this did not make him homophobic. “If you love a person enough to want them to be healed and to have a proper family, that is hardly homophobic,” Silvester said. “It’s not what I say, it’s what the Bible says.”

He was then suspended by his party.

5. Hurricane Katrina

Blaming major natural disasters on “the homosexuals” is a time-honored right-wing pastime. Pastor John Hagee, a religious right figure from San Antonio, entered a classic in the genre when he blamed Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans on a “homosexual parade” that was supposed to have been held the next week.

Hagee not only made the connection, but affirmed it multiple times as everyone from NPR’s Terry Gross to right-wing radio host Dennis Hastert asked if he was serious.

“I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that,” Hagee told Gross. “The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe…that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.”

Two years after that statement, Hagee endorsed then-GOP presidential nominee John McCain. The endorsement turned out to be problematic for McCain, who never could amend himself to Hagee’s slew of homophobic (as well as anti-Catholic and anti-whatever else) comments, especially during McCain’s trip to New Orleans.

Apparently God’s Sodom-and-Gomorrah-like punishment of New Orleans didn’t take, according to right-wing preacher and radio host John McTernan. When Hurricane Isaac (later downgraded to a tropical storm) made aim for New Orleans in 2012, McTernan likened the seven-year gap to the seven days of creation, and said God was revisiting his judgment.

“The church, city and nation have not repented and the homosexual agenda is far worse than it was in 2005,” he said. “New Orleans is still hosting Southern Decadence with open homosexuality manifesting in the streets of the city. It could be that God is putting an end to this city and its wickedness.”

Well YEEHAW Fellow Christians! Gaynado season is upon us.! Any day now them gay boys gonna be blowin' up a storm, if'n ya know whut I mean. Goin' to be blowin' down churches and destroyin' schools. All because we is allowin' them gays to get married. Hell, be all kinds of storms and natural disasters like whut happens in them other countries, like Denmark and Sweden. Oh, wait........

[SGOS]

God gets really angry during the hurricane season.  The rest of the time, he's not so angry.  Kind of strange when you think about it.

[Jason78]

If they really believe this, then why aren't they using gay people as weapons of war?  Or using them to irrigate the Nevada desert? 


Hell, they could have organised a huge gay gangbang in California and stopped that drought there in a single stroke!

[Solitary]

Are all the GOP politicians insane? Why is it that all these religious nuts know what God thinks---the BuyBull.  Solitary

"I don't hate fags, I just hate what they do"=I don't hate religious nuts, I just hate what they do.

[Poison Tree]

Just yesterday my dad asked me (jokingly, fortunately, while discussing some appalling homophobia displayed on facebook) if all the advancements in gay marriage had caused a bunch of tornadoes over the winter.

[stromboli]

What an odd situation. 75-80% of the population living in fear that plus or minus 10% is going to destroy the nation. Apparently they envision gangs of gays armed with gay pride buttons and rainbow accessory bags on their belts roaming the streets. Or fleets of pink Mazda Miatas driving around with tastefully dressed men and women, who could leap out at any second and point out that Gucci bag you are carrying is a knock off.

Oh, and adopt otherwise unwanted children and giving them a loving home. The horror.

[Solitary]

I think hell would be, being able to go inside their minds. Solitary

[Hydra009]

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/11/6_most_absurd_things_the_christian_right_has_blamed_on_gays_partner/

“We have displeased the Lord and the earth is going to answer,” so-called prophet Cindy Jacobs warned in advance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act last summer. If this warning sounds familiar, it should: right wingers have a long history of blaming everything from earthquakes to recession to climate change on the advance of gay marriage, and they’re only getting more ridiculous.

The really weird thing is that ages ago, this sort of behavior was pretty normal.  "Prophets" would take to the streets and weave current events and religion together.  "Repent, O' Israel!  For YHWH brings famine and war!"  Looking it at now, it all seems so stupid and superstitious.  And that's because it is.  It's just that a lot of people still haven't gotten the memo.

[stromboli]

If you want real fear, sit and think a bit about having someone like Ted Cruz in the White House.

[Jason78]

If you want real fear, sit and think a bit about having someone like Ted Cruz in the White House.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

Now now...how about you guys stop discussing this "secret gay conspiracy" and look at these nice camps I set up for you...attendance is mandatory.

[the_antithesis]

Now now...how about you guys stop discussing this "secret gay conspiracy" and look at these nice camps I set up for you...attendance is mandatory.

No thanks. Your camp is too campy.

[stromboli]

Scenario for Gaynado weather forecasting:


Super Religious Climatologist: "Yeah, we got an apparent Super Cell just West of Enid, Oklahoma headin' in, but no apparent activity at this point."

Super religious weather observer: "Yeah, Floyd, want to give you a heads up on that. Talked to a State Trooper a minute ago saw a Pink Mazda Miata with California plates headin' for Enid. Car had two men in it.

Floyd: "Well, that is a concern Lee, but that's not enough to go on. Any more information?"

Lee: "Well, the officer did day the car was a bright pink and he's sure it's a custom paint job. Also, the two men were both tastefully dressed."

Floyd: "Well, that tears it, that's enough for me. You got an ETA in Enid for them two?"

Lee: "Reckon about 2:30. Given they's Gays, they will already have a room booked and GPS, so they'll get right there. Give em' an hour to shower and shave, figure they get to blowin' each other 'bout 3:30."

Floyd: "Right. Given the speed of that Super Cell, figure it'll go vertical 'bout two hours later. So sound the warnin' 'bout 4 PM- give ever'body time to hunker down. Good call on that one, Lee!"

[Jason78]

I would watch that movie

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I remember seeing a lady preacher on TV, standing in front of a pancake-like structure she used to preach in. I nearly puked when she said, "Thank God more people weren't killed."