Gays 'Responsible' For New Orleans Devastation Group Claims

[sonicx]

(New Orleans, Louisiana) An evangelical Christian group that regularly demonstrates at LGBT events is blaming gays for hurricane Katrina.

Repent America says that God "destroyed" New Orleans because of Southern Decadence, the gay festival that was to have taken place in the city over the Labor Day weekend.

"Southern Decadence" has a history of filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars" Repent America director Michael Marcavage said in a statement Wednesday.

"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city." Marcavage said. "From ‘Girls Gone Wild’ to ‘Southern Decadence’, New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same."

"Let us pray for those ravaged by this disaster. However, we must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long," Marcavage said.

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more =http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/08/083105nola.htm

[muwriter]

1. Hrm. Gays made God kill innocents and destroy several of His houses

Does not compute.

Knew we'd see this though. Waiting on Pat Robertson and his wisdom.

[bribri16]

37. And MS and AL? What was God's beef with them? n/t

[SPQR]

42. Collateral damage.

Unavoidable.

[Nihil]

74. Looks like God is as accurate with his weapons ...

... as the rest of the US forces over in Iraq ...

(Sorry, should have put a :sarcasm: for the humour-impaired)

[Cha]

57. And the Floating

Gamblers' Paradise? I bet bill bennett was absolutely Apoplectic!

[padraig]

101. Ironic

You never see liberals say things like that. Like blaming the destruction on invading Iraq, or southern states disenfranchising minority voters or persecuting gays. Nope. It's always the right that comes out with that nonsense.

I find it ironic that just a few days ago, John Bolton demanded the U.N. delete the phrase "respect for nature" from its statement of principles. I bet none of the Bu$hies even recognize the irony of this.

[iamjoy]

2. Are We Surprised?

n/t

[SharonRB]

19. Not at all, unfortunately

I was expecting just this kind of response from some right wing evangelical group.

[smirkymonkey]

95. It's completely lost on them that it's THE BIBLE BELT

that has been hit the hardest by these storms over the last few years.

Of course they also neglect to observe that such storms are par for the course in an area that is HURRICANE PRONE due to it's geographic location.

There are a hell of a lot more false Christians than there are gay people.

[Buns_of_Fire]

34. Only that it took this long. n/t

[NNadir]

3. This was inevitable.

[KittyWampus]

87. still kind of shocking though

[Sanity Claws]

4. Hmmm -- how do these idiots explain the rest of the damage?

Like Biloxi, MS. Bunch of fundies there.

[muwriter]

7. Gambling in Biloxi and Gulfport

Good gambling, too.

[SOS]

93. And how do they explain this...

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Trent Lott's oceanfront house in Pascagoula, Mississippi, was among the thousands of homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, according to the senator's spokeswoman."

Trent Lott? Interesting.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. But Mardi Gras is a humble celebration of piety...

...where no one drinks or engages in sex acts in public streets and bars?

[howmad1]

9. Great! Takes pressure off Bill Clinton.

[rooboy]

6. Does this mean...

that if I go and masturbate outside Fred Phelps' house, a tornado will wipe out his house?

[Scooter24]

39. LOL

oh my... *covers eyes*

[Gemini Cat]

54. LOL!

I don't know, but it might be fun to try!! }(

[DBoon]

60. If there is even the slightest chance

go do it!

The entire civilized world will thank you for your noble sacrifice

[Mad_Dem_X]

78. LMAO! If that were true...

there'd be a whole crowd outside his house 24/7!

[Chovexani]

90. Does Michael Moore still have the Sodomobile?

Would be a noble cause!

[flvegan]

8. Soooo...God is manipulated by gays. Interesting.

I would've thought more of Him...

I would've thought more of His incredibly devoted followers than to belittle His ability to discern.

But that's just me...

[northzax]

80. makes you long for the good old days, don't it?

when God was still young enough to precisely target a city with fire and brimstone? I guess his aim's going in his old age, you know, having a son who people seem to like more than you can be very difficult on an old man.

The fact that God is apparently this scared of gays lends more credence to my theory that God is gay. think about it: he's single, never been seen in the company of women, had a kid by artificial insemination, keeps himself in remarkable shape, loves to design things. Sounds a lot like my Uncle Frank, actually. Grandmother never figured out why he never got married...

[NYC Liberal]

10. Huh, I wonder what took them so long.

It's the same tired rhetoric we hear after every disaster. :eyes: Unfortunately there are people who listen to these nutcases.

[Alizaryn]

11. I hope they are happy to know that their message

matches that of the Islamic extremists who are also blaming the devastation on America's behavior.... Nice going guys!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Will someone please bone these people up the ass and end their

torturous years of repression???

[Liberal Veteran]

No doubt...I think we gays should have big party in DC!

And see what God does there!

[northzax]

81. oh, thanks.

just what we need, a hurricane. fabulous. :)

[the arkansas liberal]

13. What an Asshole...

Wouldn't it have made more sense to smite the place with all us Big Homos actually THERE?? I mean, SD was this coming week....or maybe God just screwed up. I mean, He IS incredibly busy now, what with talking to Pat Robertson and all, so maybe he got the dates wrong. Labor Day IS a little late this year, isn't it?

Maybe God is pissed off because the three hardest-hit states (MS, LA, AL) ALL voted overwhelmingly to define marriage as between a man and woman ONLY. Could it be a strike against hatred? God hates People who hate Fags? Could it be? Take THAT, Fred Phelps! This makes as much sense as the prick from Repent America.....

Why do those who insist on governing by the Bible get to pick and choose? Check out a similar post in the GLBT forum by Red XIII -- really quotes a lot of verses we should ALL be glad aren't enforced (kill those working on Sabbath, OK to own slaves, men don't shave whiskers from side of head, etc.).

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. God told me she did it because all three states voted for Bush

Welcome to DU btw...the only bad thing that happens to us queers here is getting blamed for the 04 election :hi:

[manic expression]

14. Base, simply disgusting

:puke:

[really annoyed]

15. Sick, But Typical

I hope Marcavage burns in Hell.

[Whoa_Nelly]

16. This is just more of the Phelps' group

Idiots...that's all they are...uncompassionate idiots.

[are_we_united_yet]

18. Hey Marcavage you effin wingnut, fill in the blank:

"Shut the ---- up!"

[cyr330]

20. Let's use some of their logic

We can blame the hurricane on the fact that they've been making fucking assholes out of themselves at military members' and gays' funerals for quite some time. In other words, it's THEIR fault.

[atommom]

21. Well, we knew what they were going to say. I'm sure Phred will

say the same, too. :eyes: I don't know how people so full of hate can function...

[redwitch]

22. Oh Bullshit! Everyone knows it was those girls gone wild.

Honestly. :eyes:

[muwriter]

23. Hate article mentions GGW by name. They're being even-handed.

[redwitch]

24. Who's being evenhanded?

I don't know what you mean.

[muwriter]

33. American Taliban lunatic group (nt)

[rocktivity]

25. Actually, God did it to punish Pat Robertson

for endangering his foreign missionaries by calling for the asassination of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez.

:headbang:
rocknation

[truthisfreedom]

26. umm, well, my personal extremest group of one, me, claims that the god of

OIL, which is the greatest of all gods, brought hurricane Katrina to devastate the oiliest part of the country. that should be obvious.

[nothometoday]

27. When does the bullshit stop????

I am amazed......

[KamaAina]

28. The "wicked city" is also home to a Baptist theological seminary

One of the staples at its unutterably vile Jazz Fest :sarcasm: is the gospel tent. Meanwhile, festival goers line up for a taste of the famous fried chicken served by -- you guessed it -- a local Baptist church.

Uptown on Constance Street, there is/was a Catholic church featuring a gospel Mass!

Yessirree, all that wickedness just had to be cleansed! :sarcasm:

Please keep KamaAina away from the sharp or breakable objects when mentioning these miserable excuses for people. I'm too pretty to go to jail :-)

[Hekate]

29. I would have expected a better decorating scheme...

... maybe some Wagnerian music. If gays really were responsible, right? :eyes:

Hekate

#Why won't the Chickenhawk cross the road?#

[MasonJar]

30. It is time to silence these perverts. Christians awake and take

back your religion NOW.

[VegasWolf]

31. Who Would Jesus Blame? nt

[Miss Chybil]

32. I think God's punishing us for all the hateful, murderous, judgemental,

hypocritical, lying, war-mongering people we have running this country. That's what I think.

God hates Mean People!

[sakabatou]

35. These people are a lost cause

[Hekate]

36. Actually She is pissed off, but disaster per se isn't personal

By which I mean, of course, that She's getting fed up with how we humans are treating her body and her other children, but that the playing out of natural forces partly or wholly set in motion by our foolishness (for instance, global warming) isn't personal. Otherwise Dubya and pals would be up to their necks in the toxic muck that is now New Orleans instead of sitting in air conditioned comfort hundreds of miles away from all the misery.

The wingnuts do a lot of psychological projection, and very little introspection into their own responsibility regarding disasters.

Hekate

#Why won't the Chickenhawk cross the road?#

[Scooter24]

38. Yawn n/t

[VegasWolf]

40. I thought it was because God didn't like the Cajun cooking there. nt

[complain jane]

41. Don't hurricanes sweep through the midwest Red States every year?

God must really hate them.

[mom cat]

43. How do they explain all of the fundies that died?

[Nihil]

75. Hallelujah! They've been raptured!

They's all gown up to the Lawd's Riyatt Haynd as all rightful folk do!
They's given their mortal lives for the salvation, the lesson that the
Gooed Lawd is handing down to the sinners so that all the holy people
will see THE LIGHT!

If only we were given warning, we could have evacuated New Orleans and
shipped all of the fundies there before the storm ...

[mom cat]

76. They can take their hate and shove it!

[northzax]

82. maybe this was the cover for the rapture?

interesting...

[Nihil]

84. Now that would *REALLY* piss off the WASP Fundies wouldn't it?

Only the poor, black, down-trodden people "raptured" while the
righteous TV Evangelists are "left behind" ...

If there was ever a time for a really big :evilgrin: then this is it! :-)

[BattyDem]

44. Hey wingnuts! Shut the fuck up and go away!

:grr:

[WMliberal]

45. a teacher in my department said something similar today.

And what about Mississippi? Reddest of red states. Lots of gawd fearin' folk there. Were they just hit by the backswing of gawd's sword of justice?

I'm still waiting for them to blame the Clenis

[MountainLaurel]

86. I would have went batshit on her n/t

[belle]

88. Punch her lights out, smile sweetly and tell her God told you to do it.

[antonialee839]

46. Didn't take long for the crazies to come out from

under their slimy rocks. What a filthy crew they are.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. Just like 9/11 was?

[currents]

48. Then why was the French Quarter not destroyed?

The French Quarter where these things take place is mostly still dry on higher land...

Oh yeah, and god is fake.

[Zenlitened]

49. What? Forty-sevens posts and no one has chimed in to say...

... "They're not real christians" yet?

A new record.

[nemo137]

99. at this point, we're hoping you judge them by their actions

which show a remarkable lack of any of the fruits of the spirit.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

50. Resistance is Futile

You will be accessorized.

[Behind the Aegis]

51. Nuts!

If G-d really wanted to punish gays, couldn't He wait a week for the THOUSANDS that would have poured into that city? :eyes:

Just add one more thing to our list...9-11, the elections, gay bashings (that's out fault too), the bad summer movie selection, raising gas prices (I guess if we gave the right people some good BJ's we could get them to lower their prices, but chances are we'd be executed or tossed in jail), and the lackluster fall fashions! :eyes:

[Endangered Specie]

52. Like fucking clockwork they crawl out the woodwork.

[54anickel]

53. OMG, there's another one? I thought for sure this would be Phelps.

I haven't heard of this Marcavage nut before.

[Cha]

55. They're not Christians so

they should not be called that. I'm sick of the ORWELLIAN SHIT!

They are the ones who caused DEVASTATION to New Orleans!

I can say it about them with as much assertion as they say it about whoever is the latest on their BOOGEYMAN SHITLIST!

[Bill McBlueState]

79. Of course they're Christians.

If you asked them, they'd probably say they believe Jesus is the son of God. So they're Christians. Sorry, you can't push these guys off on the rest of us. This kind of hateful attitude toward disadvantaged people is the very public face of Christianity today.

[nemo137]

100. can we use the term "technical" or "soi-dissant" or "supposed"

in front of Christian with these guys? I mean, we theoretically agree on some theology, but they seem to ignore the Jesus' great teaching on the law (love God, and your neighbor as yourself).

[IndianaGreen]

56. And what was the sin committed by the other Gulf coast communities?

These people are so insane that it is not even worth replying to their rants. If one were to accept their theology as valid, one would also have to believe that G-d is such a mean sonofabitch to allow the deaths of so many innocents, including infants and the unborn in this disaster.

Looks like the inbreds at Rev. Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church are not the only jihadists! Pat Robertson once said that Hurricane Andrew was used by G-d to punish Floridians for their sins.

[gauguin57]

58. I wish these a-hole fundies would get their story straight. I heard ...

... earlier today (via Daily Kos) that, on the satellite map, Katrina looked like a fetus (to the fundies) ... and because there were abortion clinics in Louisiana ... well, that just PROVES to them that God's wrath was visited upon the people of N.O.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/31/0836/62623

[ninkasi]

64. Why are these obviously mentally unstable people allowed

out in public? Why aren't they kept in an institution for the religiously insane, on heavy drugs, where they can't do even more damage to society? I'm faced with choosing between believing that these people are just vile, hateful fucks, who say whatever they think will hurt others, or that they are sincere morons. Either way, I'm fed up with them and their shrill insistence on pushing their lunatic views on the rest of us.

These people, remember, are Bush's base. His hardcore worshipers.That, if nothing else, should prove to the world at large that the president is a lying sociopath. Why else would these nutjobs adore him?

[UCLA Dem]

59. Wow! Who knew that one group had that much power! They control the weather

[ourbluenation]

61. hey Marcavage...FU

FUCK YOU YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD.

[cosmicdot]

62. Robertson surrogate ... Pat's tongue is bit tied at the mo' n/m

[blueblitzkrieg]

63. Typical of religious right to exploit tragedy to push their hate agenda.

nt

[Riverman]

65. Intelligent Design?

Hurricanes are spawned by not by heat energy, but by the hand of an Intelligent entity!

[genieroze]

66. They are full of it.

[newyorican]

67. Gods vengence for...

A. Iraqi invasion?
B. Forcing Israel out of Gaza?
C. Gay/Lesbian tolerance?
D. Electing Dim-Son (I added this one)?
E. All of the above?
F. None of the above?

[The Blue Knight]

69. Fuck these assholes.

Seriously. If I die and go to heaven and these assholes are there, I'm going to take eternal damnation instead.

[Nostradamus]

68. Stop Press : Gays responsible for apple tree in the garden of eden

..er..no wait...

[barb162]

70. Radical Moslem web sites are laughing it up and saying Allah

caused the storm to punish the great satan

[cloudythescribbler]

71. Hmm... "God is my terrorist, I shall not want?"

[jumptheshadow]

72. Hmmm....

It has nothing to do with global warming? Or with the administration's slashing of funds to bolster the levees? Or the National Guard troops and other critical resources being deployed in Iraq?

[pinniped]

73. That would also mean da man is not too pleased with this...

particular evangelical Christian group.

Their good deeds couldn't cancel out all the debauchery.

[shantipriya]

77. Repent

No it is not gays. It is our Govt's killing of millions of innocent people in SE Asia and Iraq.

[earth mom]

83. Now here's a group of idiots that REALLY need to be told to F OFF!!!

:grr:

[RedCloud]

85. Why not sue them for hate crimes then?

Let's see them prove it in a court of law that Jehovah used a hurricane...

[Chovexani]

89. I knew this was coming

These assholes are so predictable. Of course, people having fun is a sin that must be punished.

How do these bastards explain Hurricane Floyd? You know, the one that hit Virginia Beach the year Pat Robertson cast a death curse on Orlando for flying gay pride flags (oh, I mean, "warned that God would destroy it with meteors"). And FL had one of the quietest hurricane seasons on record. I bet that one was science according to them.

[Megahurtz]

91. Oh Come On!

:eyes:

[PleadTheFirst]

92. The gays did it?

Shit, and here I thought it was Clinton's fault. :sarcasm:


What a pack of assholes. No tragedy is too great that they can't try to take advantage of it to push their myopic, hateful agendas.

[pelagius]

94. This is one of the sickest perversions of Christianity I can imagine

Perhaps they should read this passage:

But whoever has the world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how could the love of God abide in him? (1 John 3:17)

[auburngrad82]

96. I wonder why God singles out the red states when he gets pissed at us

Don't they live the good life and keep straight with God? You'd think God would be punishing gays rather than good homophobic Christians. Maybe God's pissed at assholes and hatemongers like Marcavage...

[slackmaster]

97. Gay people kicked my dog

And I don't even have a dog.

:wtf:

[arwalden]

98. And To Think... They Wonder Why They Are Mocked And Ridiculed??

What loons! Complete fruitcakes! Wackos! Kooks!

[Seabiscuit]

102. These fundie idiots must imagine God is one hell of a slackard for

waiting around for three centuries of "Southern Decadence" in NO before finally zapping it.