by Staff writer
LGBTQ Americans convey caused the dry reason billions of dollars inwards structural damage, killed dozens of people, together with displaced thousands to a greater extent than from their homes, according to the evangelical figures who believe gay people caused Hurricane Harvey.
Despite overwhelming testify that adverse atmospheric condition together with climate alter had a manus to play inwards the tempest that has devastated parts of Texas, numerous voices emerged that suggested the biblical proportions of the alluvion were, well, literally biblical.
Among those crying “science hold out damned” together with waving their pitchforks inwards the full general direction of the LGBT community over the past times calendar week were government minister Kevin Swanson, who believes the Bible preaches croak to gays, together with the similarly delightful radio host Rick Wiles, who thinks Ebola would hold out a handy agency to wipe out the LGBT community.
Swanson said on his show: “Jesus sends the message home, unless Americans repent, unless Houston repents, unless New Orleans repents, they volition all likewise perish.”
“That is the message that the Lord Jesus Christ is sending habitation correct forthwith to America,” he added, Advocate reported.
Wiles also observed, inwards comments carried past times Right Wing Watch: “Here’s a urban core that has boasted of its LGBT devotion, its affinity for the sexual perversion movement inwards America. They’re underwater.”
Everyone’s favorite right-wing commentator Ann Coulter also suggested she’d hold out to a greater extent than willing to believe gay people caused the flooding than purchase into the sentiment of climate change. Despite overwhelming testify to the contrary.
“I don't believe Hurricane Harvey is God's penalty for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is to a greater extent than credible than 'climate change,'” Coulter wrote on Twitter.
Despite the comments from a release of conservatives that Hurricane Harvey arrived every bit or together with thence sort of punishment, fewer people convey spoken out nearly the sentiment that Harvey is God’s penalty than alongside previous natural disasters, believe it or not.
According to the Religious News Service, many of the people who spoke out during Katrina together with Sandy convey kept placidity nearly Harvey because of its location inwards comparatively conservative Texas.
Member of Trump's evangelical advisor board Michael Brown suggested people should non province Harvey was a penalty for specific sinners.
"We must hold out rattling careful earlier nosotros brand divine pronouncements nearly hurricanes together with other natural disasters, every bit if they were specific acts of divine judgment against specific sets of sinners," Brown said inwards comments carried past times RNS.
“Houston is i of the few cities that has stood bravely against the ascension tide of LGBT activism. Why would God unmarried out Houston for judgment?” he added.
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LGBTQ Americans convey caused the dry reason billions of dollars inwards structural damage, killed dozens of people, together with displaced thousands to a greater extent than from their homes, according to the evangelical figures who believe gay people caused Hurricane Harvey.
Despite overwhelming testify that adverse atmospheric condition together with climate alter had a manus to play inwards the tempest that has devastated parts of Texas, numerous voices emerged that suggested the biblical proportions of the alluvion were, well, literally biblical.
Among those crying “science hold out damned” together with waving their pitchforks inwards the full general direction of the LGBT community over the past times calendar week were government minister Kevin Swanson, who believes the Bible preaches croak to gays, together with the similarly delightful radio host Rick Wiles, who thinks Ebola would hold out a handy agency to wipe out the LGBT community.
Swanson said on his show: “Jesus sends the message home, unless Americans repent, unless Houston repents, unless New Orleans repents, they volition all likewise perish.”
“That is the message that the Lord Jesus Christ is sending habitation correct forthwith to America,” he added, Advocate reported.
Wiles also observed, inwards comments carried past times Right Wing Watch: “Here’s a urban core that has boasted of its LGBT devotion, its affinity for the sexual perversion movement inwards America. They’re underwater.”
Everyone’s favorite right-wing commentator Ann Coulter also suggested she’d hold out to a greater extent than willing to believe gay people caused the flooding than purchase into the sentiment of climate change. Despite overwhelming testify to the contrary.
“I don't believe Hurricane Harvey is God's penalty for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is to a greater extent than credible than 'climate change,'” Coulter wrote on Twitter.
Despite the comments from a release of conservatives that Hurricane Harvey arrived every bit or together with thence sort of punishment, fewer people convey spoken out nearly the sentiment that Harvey is God’s penalty than alongside previous natural disasters, believe it or not.
According to the Religious News Service, many of the people who spoke out during Katrina together with Sandy convey kept placidity nearly Harvey because of its location inwards comparatively conservative Texas.
Member of Trump's evangelical advisor board Michael Brown suggested people should non province Harvey was a penalty for specific sinners.
"We must hold out rattling careful earlier nosotros brand divine pronouncements nearly hurricanes together with other natural disasters, every bit if they were specific acts of divine judgment against specific sets of sinners," Brown said inwards comments carried past times RNS.
“Houston is i of the few cities that has stood bravely against the ascension tide of LGBT activism. Why would God unmarried out Houston for judgment?” he added.
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