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Contents:
- IT'S ALL OUR FLT! 10 DISASTERS THE GAYS SUPPOSEDLY CSED
- GAY PEOPLE TO BLAME FOR HURRINE HARVEY, SAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN LEARS
- GOD AND NATURAL DISASTERS: IT'S THE GAYS' FLT?
- 7 NATURAL DISASTERS EVANGELILS HAVE BLAMED ON GAY PEOPLE"GOD DON’T LET HIMSELF BE MOCKED."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY ADAM SALANDRASEPTEMBER 8, 2017/2:52 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}LT. ZACHARY WT/ARMY NATNAL GUARDHOUSTON, TX - AUGUST 27: IN THIS HANDOUT PROVID BY THE ARMY NATNAL GUARD, A TEXAS NATNAL GUARDSMAN RRI A RINT OM HER FLOOD HOME FOLLOWG HURRINE HARVEY AUGT 27, 2017 HOTON, TEXAS. HARVEY, WHICH MA LANDFALL NORTH OF CORP CHRISTI LATE FRIDAY EVENG, IS EXPECTED TO DUMP UPWARDS TO 40 CH OF RA AREAS OF TEXAS OVER THE NEXT UPLE OF DAYS. (PHOTO BY LT. ZACHARY WT/ARMY NATNAL GUARD VIA GETTY IMAG)BY ADAM SALANDRASEPTEMBER 8, 2017 / 2:52 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"7 NATURAL DISASTERS EVANGELILS HAVE BLAMED ON GAY PEOPLE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-09-08T18:52:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-09-08T18:52:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ADAM SALANDRA","KEYWORDS":"RELIGN","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANY NSERVATIV REFE TO BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, SO WHEN NATURAL DISASTERS STRIKE, WHO DO THEY BLAME? GAY PEOPLE, OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH THE VASTATG HURRIN CURRENTLY RAVAGG THE UNTRY, THE "BLAME THE GAYS" TROPE IS BACK AND STRONGER THAN EVER. BELOW, WE HIGHLIGHT SEVEN NATURAL DISASTERS THAT EVANGELILS CLARED WERE GOD'S WRATH AGAST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HURRINE SANDYDEBBIE EGAN-CH/NY DAILY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAGBREEZY POT SUFFERED SEVERE DAMAGE SUCH AS THE 100 HOE THAT WERE BURNT TO THE GROUND AFTER BEG H BY HURRINE SANDY. QUEENS, NY (PHOTO BY: DEBBIE EGAN-CH/NY DAILY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN SANDY RAVAGED THE EASTERN SEABOARD 2012, BRISH PREACHER JOHN MCTERNAN SAID WE HAD BARACK OBAMA'S ENDORSEMENT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TO BLAME. HE ALSO CLAIMED BOTH OBAMA AND OPPONENT MT ROMNEY "ARE PRO-HOMOSEXUAL AND ARE BEHD THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA" AND THAT "AMERI IS UNR POLIL JUDGMENT AND THE CHURCH DO NOT KNOW !"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}2011 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI JAPANATH PERAWONGMETHA/GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CDY JABS, -FOUNR OF THE GENERALS INTERNATNAL MISTRY, CLARED THAT THE VASTATG EARTHQUAKE AND SUBSEQUENT TSUNAMI THAT KILLED MORE THAN 16,000 PEOPLE JAPAN WAS DUE TO THE REPEAL OF "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOW A ERNMENT ACTN THE U.S. IS TIED TO SEISMIC ACTIVY JAPAN, WE DON'T KNOW. BUT JABS ALSO SAID ALLOWG GAYS THE ARY ED MASS BIRD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HURRINE JOAQURICHARD ELLIS/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FAY REARCH COUNCIL HONCHO TONY PERKS HAS OFTEN LLED NATURAL DISASTERS A SIGN OF GOD'S WRATH AGAST HOMOSEXUALS. HE PPOTED THE VASTATN THAT OCCURRED HAIWAII AFTER HURRINE JOAQU 2015 AS AN EXAMPLE, SAYG WAS PUNISHMENT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IRONILLY, PERKS' LOUISIANA HOME WAS STROYED BY A FLOOD 2016. DRAW YOUR OWN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOUTH AIN WILDFIRRODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY IMAGFIREFIGHTERS BATTLE A BH FIRE ON SIGNAL HILL, ON THE SI OF THE CENTRAL CY, ON JANUARY 13, 2017, CAPE TOWN. WILDFIR HAVE RAVAGED THE WTERN CAPE PROVCE FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS, SOMETIM WH SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOTNS AT THE SAME TIME. HOM, FARMS, AND OTHER STCTUR HAVE BEEN BURNT DURG THE LAST TWO WEEKS. / AFP / RODGER BOSCH (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ RODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOUTH AIN PARAMEDIC BOSSIE BOSHOFF WAS SPEND EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER SAYG THE WILDFIR THAT VASTATED LARGE PARTS OF SOUTH AI—AND FORCED 10,000 PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOM—WERE GOD'S PUNISHMENT FOR SAME-SEX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“CAN YOU REMEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN [THE TOWN OF] KNYSNA WAS MA UP PK AND 12 HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG TOOK PLACE ON ONE DAY?” HE WROTE ON FACEBOOK. "IT WAS ONLY AFTER THE ELECTN OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH WHEN THEY APPROVED GAY HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE. IT WAS ALL OVER THE NEWSPAPERS. IT DARED GOD. THEY MTN’T CRY NOW ABOUT THE FIRE. GOD DON’T LET HIMSELF BE MOCKED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}2016 ITALIAN EARTHQUAKETIZIANA FABI/AFP/GETTY IMAGTOPSHOT - A PICTURE TAKEN ON OCTOBER 4, 2016 SHOWS STCTN THE VILLAGE OF AMATRICE THAT WAS RATTLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE ON AUGT 24, CLAIMG NEARLY 300 LIV. / AFP / TIZIANA FABI (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ TIZIANA FABI/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LAST YEAR, A PRIT BLAMED A ADLY EARTHQUAKE CENTRAL ITALY ON THE ERNMENT PASSG CIVIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FATHER GVANNI CAVALLI SAID WAS "OFFENSE TO THE FAY AND THE DIGNY OF MARRIAGE" AND THAT THE 6.6-MAGNU TREMORS WERE "DIVE PUNISHMENT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKEMARTY MELVILLE/AFP/GETTY IMAGTOPSHOT - EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE TO STATE HIGHWAY 1 IS SEEN SOUTH OF KAIKOURA ON NOVEMBER 16, 2016. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRIAN TAMAKI OF AUCKLAND'S DTY CHURCH BLAMED GAY PEOPLE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS OF EVERY KD A 2016 FACEBOOK POST. WHEN NEW ZEALAND WAS H WH A 7.8 QUAKE THE NEXT DAY, HE DOUBLED-DOWN ON HIS WORDS: "AS PREDICTED DURG YTERDAY MORNG'S SERVICE, THE RECENT NATURAL DISASTERS ARE A SIGN THAT 'NATURE WAS NEVER CREATED TO RRY THE BONDAGE OF OUR IQUY.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HURRINE HARVEYMARK RALSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAG)TOPSHOT - A LI ABANDONED AFTER HEAVY DAMAGE WHEN HURRINE HARVEY H ROCKPORT, TEXAS ON AUGT 26, 2017. HURRINE HARVEY SLAMMED TO THE TEXAS AST LATE FRIDAY, UNLEASHG TORRENTS OF RA AND PACKG POWERFUL WDS, THE FIRST MAJOR STORM TO H THE US MALAND 12 YEARS. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ MARK RALSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PASTOR KEV SWANSON WASTED NO TIME CLARG THAT THE VASTATN HARVEY WREAKED TEXAS WAS DUE TO HOTON ELECTG AN OUT LBIAN, ANNISE PARKER, AS MAYOR. (THE FACT THAT PARKER HAD ALREADY LEFT OFFICE LAST YEAR DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE ALSO BLAMED HARVEY ON TEXAS' FAILURE TO PASS A BATHROOM BILL, SAYG "J SENDS THE MSAGE HOME, UNLS AMERINS REPENT, UNLS HOTON WILL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- HURRINE NORA DAMAG PUERTO VALLARTA'S GAY-POPULAR ZONA ROMANTI
- DID GAY SEX CSE HURRINE HARVEY OR WAS CLIMATE CHANGE? SOME ON THE RIGHT BLAME LGBT AMERINS (NO SERLY)
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- GAYS GET THE BLAME FOR HURRINE ISAAC
- FET GLOBAL WARMG, HURRINE SANDY WAS CSED BY THE GAYS
IT'S ALL OUR FLT! 10 DISASTERS THE GAYS SUPPOSEDLY CSED
7 magnu earthquake Los Angel County's San Fernando Valley, which ed about $25 billn damage and 72 aths, uld be attributed to God's displeasure wh gays and lbians, pro-choice activists, and "perversy, " he said acrdg to a 1994 Advote report. Hurrine Bonnie, 1998Pat Robertson tried to pre-emptively blame gay revelers at Disney World's Gay Days Weekend for beg the e of the pendg storm. Of urse Cdy Jabs of Generals Internatnal explaed that the aths stemmed om the ary admtg openly gay and lbian troops.
Tsunami, 2011Jt a uple of months later, Jabs add that homosexualy ed the 9. "September 11, 2001Followg the life-changg terrorist attack, Jerry Falwell said, "I really believe that the pagans and the abortnists, and the femists, and the gays and the lbians who are actively tryg to make that an alternative liftyle, the ACLU, People for the Amerin Way, all of them who have tried to secularized Ameri.
Earthquake, 2011A tremor up the East Coast undoubtedly rocked the typilly solid regn, but that didn't stop antigay notabl om shakg thgs up. Archnservative Orthodox rabbi Yehuda Lev, after blamg Hai's stctive 2010 earthquake on the island natn's high HIV/AIDS rat, add that the earthquake origatg Virgia last year was ed by gay urse, Pat Robertson add that he believed that dividuals "who act kd of gay" were behd the earthqe.
GAY PEOPLE TO BLAME FOR HURRINE HARVEY, SAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN LEARS
Hurrine Katra, Augt 2005Shortly followg the massive stctn of hurrin Katra and Ra on the Gulf Coast, Repent Ameri director Michael Marvage issued a statement blamg the massive disaster on New Orleans's annual gay party, Southern Dence.
A year later, Megachurch Pastor John Haggee of San Anton, Texas, said "God ed Hurrine Katra to wipe out New Orleans bee had a gay pri para the week before and was filled wh sexual s. Pam Olsen, the founr of the Florida Prayer Network, believed that marriage equaly and ordatn of gay prits uld lead to floods, fir, and tornado. Mister Kev Swanson, who holds notorly homophobic views, said Hoton had sned by havg a "very, very aggrsively pro-homosexual mayor.
But her ments were met wh a punchy eback om Annise Parker, a former mayor of Hoton who was one of the first across the US to hold a posn of power and be openly gay. Leer, referrg to lower Manhattan as "one of the natnal centers of homosexualy, " argued that "the Great Flood the time of Noah was...
GOD AND NATURAL DISASTERS: IT'S THE GAYS' FLT?
" Leer gave as evince to prove his assertns the appearance of a "double rabow" above the cy after the storm, together wh a high ti durg the full, most notably some nservative Christian lears, have long held lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people rponsible for g many of the greatt natural disasters of morn tim. For example, May 1978 Ana Bryant, Florida orange juice spokwoman and chief anizer of the so-lled "Save Our Children" mpaign to overturn an LGBT-rights ordance Da County, lled homosexuals "human garbage" and blamed their supposedly sful behavr for a drought that was afflictg California. 8, 1978, the first openly gay man elected to that posn, and six months followg Bryant's claim, ra poured om the heavens blamed the torrential wds, ra and vastatg floods of Hurrine Katra on LGBT people.
The newspaper rried the story our lol area that was not rried natnally that there was to be a homosexual para there on the Monday that the Katra me....
7 NATURAL DISASTERS EVANGELILS HAVE BLAMED ON GAY PEOPLE"GOD DON’T LET HIMSELF BE MOCKED."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY ADAM SALANDRASEPTEMBER 8, 2017/2:52 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}LT. ZACHARY WT/ARMY NATNAL GUARDHOUSTON, TX - AUGUST 27: IN THIS HANDOUT PROVID BY THE ARMY NATNAL GUARD, A TEXAS NATNAL GUARDSMAN RRI A RINT OM HER FLOOD HOME FOLLOWG HURRINE HARVEY AUGT 27, 2017 HOTON, TEXAS. HARVEY, WHICH MA LANDFALL NORTH OF CORP CHRISTI LATE FRIDAY EVENG, IS EXPECTED TO DUMP UPWARDS TO 40 CH OF RA AREAS OF TEXAS OVER THE NEXT UPLE OF DAYS. (PHOTO BY LT. ZACHARY WT/ARMY NATNAL GUARD VIA GETTY IMAG)BY ADAM SALANDRASEPTEMBER 8, 2017 / 2:52 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"7 NATURAL DISASTERS EVANGELILS HAVE BLAMED ON GAY PEOPLE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-09-08T18:52:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-09-08T18:52:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ADAM SALANDRA","KEYWORDS":"RELIGN","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANY NSERVATIV REFE TO BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, SO WHEN NATURAL DISASTERS STRIKE, WHO DO THEY BLAME? GAY PEOPLE, OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH THE VASTATG HURRIN CURRENTLY RAVAGG THE UNTRY, THE "BLAME THE GAYS" TROPE IS BACK AND STRONGER THAN EVER. BELOW, WE HIGHLIGHT SEVEN NATURAL DISASTERS THAT EVANGELILS CLARED WERE GOD'S WRATH AGAST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HURRINE SANDYDEBBIE EGAN-CH/NY DAILY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAGBREEZY POT SUFFERED SEVERE DAMAGE SUCH AS THE 100 HOE THAT WERE BURNT TO THE GROUND AFTER BEG H BY HURRINE SANDY. QUEENS, NY (PHOTO BY: DEBBIE EGAN-CH/NY DAILY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN SANDY RAVAGED THE EASTERN SEABOARD 2012, BRISH PREACHER JOHN MCTERNAN SAID WE HAD BARACK OBAMA'S ENDORSEMENT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TO BLAME. HE ALSO CLAIMED BOTH OBAMA AND OPPONENT MT ROMNEY "ARE PRO-HOMOSEXUAL AND ARE BEHD THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA" AND THAT "AMERI IS UNR POLIL JUDGMENT AND THE CHURCH DO NOT KNOW !"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}2011 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI JAPANATH PERAWONGMETHA/GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CDY JABS, -FOUNR OF THE GENERALS INTERNATNAL MISTRY, CLARED THAT THE VASTATG EARTHQUAKE AND SUBSEQUENT TSUNAMI THAT KILLED MORE THAN 16,000 PEOPLE JAPAN WAS DUE TO THE REPEAL OF "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOW A ERNMENT ACTN THE U.S. IS TIED TO SEISMIC ACTIVY JAPAN, WE DON'T KNOW. BUT JABS ALSO SAID ALLOWG GAYS THE ARY ED MASS BIRD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HURRINE JOAQURICHARD ELLIS/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FAY REARCH COUNCIL HONCHO TONY PERKS HAS OFTEN LLED NATURAL DISASTERS A SIGN OF GOD'S WRATH AGAST HOMOSEXUALS. HE PPOTED THE VASTATN THAT OCCURRED HAIWAII AFTER HURRINE JOAQU 2015 AS AN EXAMPLE, SAYG WAS PUNISHMENT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IRONILLY, PERKS' LOUISIANA HOME WAS STROYED BY A FLOOD 2016. DRAW YOUR OWN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOUTH AIN WILDFIRRODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY IMAGFIREFIGHTERS BATTLE A BH FIRE ON SIGNAL HILL, ON THE SI OF THE CENTRAL CY, ON JANUARY 13, 2017, CAPE TOWN. WILDFIR HAVE RAVAGED THE WTERN CAPE PROVCE FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS, SOMETIM WH SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOTNS AT THE SAME TIME. HOM, FARMS, AND OTHER STCTUR HAVE BEEN BURNT DURG THE LAST TWO WEEKS. / AFP / RODGER BOSCH (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ RODGER BOSCH/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOUTH AIN PARAMEDIC BOSSIE BOSHOFF WAS SPEND EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER SAYG THE WILDFIR THAT VASTATED LARGE PARTS OF SOUTH AI—AND FORCED 10,000 PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOM—WERE GOD'S PUNISHMENT FOR SAME-SEX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“CAN YOU REMEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN [THE TOWN OF] KNYSNA WAS MA UP PK AND 12 HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG TOOK PLACE ON ONE DAY?” HE WROTE ON FACEBOOK. "IT WAS ONLY AFTER THE ELECTN OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH WHEN THEY APPROVED GAY HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE. IT WAS ALL OVER THE NEWSPAPERS. IT DARED GOD. THEY MTN’T CRY NOW ABOUT THE FIRE. GOD DON’T LET HIMSELF BE MOCKED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}2016 ITALIAN EARTHQUAKETIZIANA FABI/AFP/GETTY IMAGTOPSHOT - A PICTURE TAKEN ON OCTOBER 4, 2016 SHOWS STCTN THE VILLAGE OF AMATRICE THAT WAS RATTLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE ON AUGT 24, CLAIMG NEARLY 300 LIV. / AFP / TIZIANA FABI (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ TIZIANA FABI/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LAST YEAR, A PRIT BLAMED A ADLY EARTHQUAKE CENTRAL ITALY ON THE ERNMENT PASSG CIVIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FATHER GVANNI CAVALLI SAID WAS "OFFENSE TO THE FAY AND THE DIGNY OF MARRIAGE" AND THAT THE 6.6-MAGNU TREMORS WERE "DIVE PUNISHMENT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKEMARTY MELVILLE/AFP/GETTY IMAGTOPSHOT - EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE TO STATE HIGHWAY 1 IS SEEN SOUTH OF KAIKOURA ON NOVEMBER 16, 2016. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRIAN TAMAKI OF AUCKLAND'S DTY CHURCH BLAMED GAY PEOPLE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS OF EVERY KD A 2016 FACEBOOK POST. WHEN NEW ZEALAND WAS H WH A 7.8 QUAKE THE NEXT DAY, HE DOUBLED-DOWN ON HIS WORDS: "AS PREDICTED DURG YTERDAY MORNG'S SERVICE, THE RECENT NATURAL DISASTERS ARE A SIGN THAT 'NATURE WAS NEVER CREATED TO RRY THE BONDAGE OF OUR IQUY.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HURRINE HARVEYMARK RALSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAG)TOPSHOT - A LI ABANDONED AFTER HEAVY DAMAGE WHEN HURRINE HARVEY H ROCKPORT, TEXAS ON AUGT 26, 2017. HURRINE HARVEY SLAMMED TO THE TEXAS AST LATE FRIDAY, UNLEASHG TORRENTS OF RA AND PACKG POWERFUL WDS, THE FIRST MAJOR STORM TO H THE US MALAND 12 YEARS. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ MARK RALSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PASTOR KEV SWANSON WASTED NO TIME CLARG THAT THE VASTATN HARVEY WREAKED TEXAS WAS DUE TO HOTON ELECTG AN OUT LBIAN, ANNISE PARKER, AS MAYOR. (THE FACT THAT PARKER HAD ALREADY LEFT OFFICE LAST YEAR DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE ALSO BLAMED HARVEY ON TEXAS' FAILURE TO PASS A BATHROOM BILL, SAYG "J SENDS THE MSAGE HOME, UNLS AMERINS REPENT, UNLS HOTON WILL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
In 1998, after cy officials Orlando, Fla., voted to fly rabow flags high atop cy lampposts durg Disney World's annual Gay Days events, Robertson issued a stern warng to the cy:I would warn Orlando that you're right the way of some ser hurrin, and I don't thk I'd be wavg those flags God's face if I were you....
13, 2001, Falwell, wh an air of righteons, proclaimed on Roberson's 700 Club on the Christian Broadstg Network:I really believe that the pagans, and the abortnists, and the femists, and the gays and the lbians who are actively tryg to make that an alternative liftyle, the ACLU, People for the Amerin Way, all of them who have tried to secularize Ameri, I pot the fger their face and say, "You helped this happen! Before this, however, when AIDS was perceived by many as a disease of gay and bisexual men, Pat Buchanan, who served as Reagan's Chief of Communitns between 1985 and 1987, had referred to AIDS as nature's "awful retributn" and said that did not serve a thorough and passnate rponse. Wrg 1983, Buchanan claimed, "The poor homosexuals -- they have clared war upon nature, and now nature is extractg an awful retributn.
HURRINE NORA DAMAG PUERTO VALLARTA'S GAY-POPULAR ZONA ROMANTI
" And 1990 he wrote, "Wh 80, 000 ad of AIDS, our promiscuo homosexuals appear lerally hell-bent on Satanism and suici. "Later, 2007, Falwell extend the blame: "AIDS is not jt God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerat homosexuals.
22, 2008, the pontiff likened savg humany om homosexual and genr-variant behavrs to savg the rart om stctn: "[The Church] should also protect man om the stctn of himself. Om the lik of natural disasters due to creasg public acceptance of homosexualy.
In 1998, he specifilly suggted that God might send hurrin and a hellfire of lightng bolts to Florida to stroy Disneyworld retaliatn for sponsorg a “Gay Days” weekend. After 9/11, he joed Jerry Falwell attributg the terrorist attacks on New York and Washgton DC to God’s wrath aimed at “pagans, abortnists, gays, lbians, [and] the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn. In what is almost surely a shoe- for an Ig Nobel Prize, a study by Aidan Bissell-Sirs tted the hypoth that “higher gayns higher storm damag” and that “higher godls lower storm damag.
DID GAY SEX CSE HURRINE HARVEY OR WAS CLIMATE CHANGE? SOME ON THE RIGHT BLAME LGBT AMERINS (NO SERLY)
”1 Usg data om the Amerin Communy Survey and the Natnal Climatic Data Center, he found no statistilly signifint rrelatn between gay marriage and per pa storm damage by US state.
It appears that, His wisdom, God has let same-sex upl off the hook and stead directed His stormy anger towards relig servicepersons for their failure to stop gay marriage.
2 The thors found that more tense hurrin were signifintly more likely stat wh more Republin voters, wh no signifint differenc when parg stat that passed legislatn legalizg or banng gay marriage. “Our rults suggt no dive punishment for votg Democrat or approvg gay marriage… eher God has longstandg wrath agast the southern US stat or they jt happen to fall the path of hurrin.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Taken at face value, the data imply a statistilly signifint pattern of dive retributn agast Republins and the banng of gay marriage.
GAYS GET THE BLAME FOR HURRINE ISAAC
Of urse, scientific explanatns n exist wh relig explanatns, but breachg the boundari of Ocm’s Razor search of dive mechanics pav a slippery slope to ee-wheelg claims that f the data, like Bissell-Sirs’ facet theory that God is punishg relig people for not stoppg gay marriage. Gays don’t e storms. Gay people, of the vastatg hurrin currently ravagg the untry, the "blame the gays" trope is back and stronger than ever.
FET GLOBAL WARMG, HURRINE SANDY WAS CSED BY THE GAYS
Below, we highlight seven natural disasters that evangelils clared were God's wrath agast gays. He also claimed both Obama and opponent Mt Romney "are pro-homosexual and are behd the homosexual agenda" and that "Ameri is unr polil judgment and the church do not know !
But Jabs also said allowg gays the ary ed mass bird aths. Hurrine JoaquFay Rearch Council honcho Tony Perks has often lled natural disasters a sign of God's wrath agast homosexuals. “Can you remember last year when [the town of] Knysna was ma up pk and 12 homosexual marriag took place on one day?
"It was only after the electn of the Dutch Reformed Church when they approved gay homosexual marriage. "New Zealand EarthquakeBrian Tamaki of Auckland's Dty Church blamed gay people for natural disasters of every kd a 2016 Facebook post. ” “New Orleans had a level of s that was offensive to God, ” Hagee said, bee “there was to be a homosexual para there on the Monday that the Katra me.