# Gays blamed for Katrina **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 31, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502 "2005-08-31T23:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/1 "2005-08-31T23:17:50Z")
[Is anyone surprised?](http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/08/083105nola.htm) I thought not. I can’t even come up with the swear words. Then again, I guess people like that turd of “Repent America” aren’t worth getting too worked up over. Still, that groups action are nothing short of sickening. Worse yet, he’s probably not alone in thinking that way. BAH. I hope New Orleans comes out even more festive when it finally recovers. Just to piss of people like “Repent America”! ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/2 "2005-08-31T23:19:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Just to piss of people like “Repent America”! Piss off, that is. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/3 "2005-08-31T23:19:16Z")
I’ve decided I’m going to Mardi Gras next year to get my beads. The Caddy, too. We’ll send the pics to them. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/4 "2005-08-31T23:29:40Z")
I’m sure that’s why God-fearing Mississippi was spared. Oh, wait, it wasn’t. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/5 "2005-08-31T23:31:52Z")
Shit! They’re on to us! ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/6 "2005-08-31T23:33:52Z")
> [@](#): > > 'm sure that’s why God-fearing Mississippi was spared. OHH! OHH!! This EVIL Casinos! BAD! BAD! I’m pretty gamblers will next in line on the blaming block. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/7 "2005-08-31T23:37:48Z")
I’m just surprised it took them this long. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/8 "2005-08-31T23:37:57Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Shit! They’re on to us! **Miller**! You know better. Do I have to make a report to _The Agenda_ about this indiscretion? Do **Guido and Bruce** need to show up and make fun of your decor like last time? When _The Committee_ meets next time, be sure your name will come up during brunch. You have been warned. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/9 "2005-08-31T23:44:28Z")
And of course Fred Phelps is celebrating Katrina as God’s vengeance on… Naw, I’m not about to repeat any of the sickening language on his sickening site, nor link to it. I wish I’d just taken his response for granted rather than checking. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/10 "2005-08-31T23:44:35Z")
Well, with a name like “Katrina,” the cover was fairly well blown already. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/11 "2005-08-31T23:48:17Z")
Phelps is at it again as well. In case the moderators care, his web site does explicitly say “You may use any of our material free of charge for any reason.”, so I don’t think there’s any problem with quoting large gobs of his filth (other than maybe nauseating the audience 🙂 ). > [@](#): > > **Thank God for Katrina** > New Orleans, symbol of America, seen for what it is: a putrid, toxic, stinking cesspool of fag fecal matter. > > “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupt; they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores; they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.” Isaiah 1:4-6. > America is irreversibly doomed. It is a sin to pray for the good of this evil fag nation. > > “Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.” Jeremiah 7:16. > It is a sin NOT to rejoice when God executes His wrath and vengeance upon America. > > “The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.” Psalm 58:10,11. > Pray for more dead bodies floating on the fag-semen-rancid waters of New Orleans. > Pray for more American bodies blown to smithereens by cheap home made Iraqi IEDs - like the IED America bombed WBC with August 20, 1995, hoping thereby to terrorize us into silence about America’s fag sins. > > “And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.” Jeremiah 21:5,6. > America became WBC’s terrorist. So, God, in retaliation, became America’s Terrorist. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/12 "2005-08-31T23:50:53Z")
Sorry **EddyTeddyFreddy** - I posted that before I saw your response. However, I did save people the trouble of looking for themselves! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/13 "2005-08-31T23:59:02Z")
Well, you can’t say that He didn’t give you fair warning: just look at what He did to Sodom and Gomorrah. {Just what did they get up to in Gomorrah anyway?} Nobody look back, that’s all I’m saying. ---
**Author:** ![boofuu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@boofuu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofuu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/14 "2005-08-31T23:59:35Z")
I thought God stopped using flooding as an MO of choice… ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/15 "2005-09-01T00:05:21Z")
Cross-posted from lj-community “pflag,” where [this link](http://www.repentamerica.com/pr_hurricanekatrina.html) was posted. If you click on the link, the “repent America” people quote the Bible: _“[God] sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matthew 5:45)_ However, if you read the actual Bible (something that a lot of “Christians” don’t seem to do) you don’t see just that line, but that line in context: \"You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: \Love your enemies\ and \pray for those who persecute you,\ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.\* Matthew 5:43-48 > **[Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 5:43-48 - New International Version](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:43-48%3B&version=NIV)** > > Love for Enemies - “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the... Interesting how the war over homosexuality seems to be fought by only one side. Interesting how you never hear gay-rights groups claiming that God sent some kind of tragedy to punish Christians. Just in the interest of objective analysis though, does anyone know of any Christian conferences or events of any kind planned for New Orleans in the near future? If so, then someone’s got some ‘splainin’ to do. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/16 "2005-09-01T00:11:30Z")
I guess this is why a good Christian city like **Las Vegas** has been spared so many natural disasters. It’s a lovely “Norman Rockwell” kind of town of good God-Fearing folk who shun the wages of sin and the sins of flesh. The rest of America should take heed and follow the shining, stellar example that this town has set. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/17 "2005-09-01T00:15:20Z")
> [@boofuu](#): > > I thought God stopped using flooding as an MO of choice… Was there a rainbow when Katrina finally passed? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/18 "2005-09-01T00:19:48Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > I guess this is why a good Christian city like **Las Vegas** has been spared so many natural disasters. It’s a lovely “Norman Rockwell” kind of town of good God-Fearing folk who shun the wages of sin and the sins of flesh. The rest of America should take heed and follow the shining, stellar example that this town has set. :rolleyes: Not even God wants to mess with the Mob. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/19 "2005-09-01T01:02:39Z")
I can understand, if his press kit is true, why God doesn’t like homos and drug users and other “pirates, drunks and whores” New Orleans is famous for, but has He ever said why he hates poor people so much? They’re the ones he also hits whenever he goes after the queers. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/20 "2005-09-01T01:15:29Z")
If this is true, God needs to ask himself “What would Jesus do?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502.md?page=2)