# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/21 "2005-09-01T01:19:19Z")
Apropos of the Robertson/Chavez flap, is there some tin-pot Latin American dictator we can convince to call publicly for the assassination of Fred Phelps? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/22 "2005-09-01T01:22:05Z")
> [@boofuu](#): > > I thought God stopped using flooding as an MO of choice… That is correct. > [@](#): > > 1. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." > 2. > > ``` > God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: > > ``` > > 3. > > ``` > I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. > > ``` > > 4. > > ``` > When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, > > ``` > > 5. > > ``` > I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. > > ``` > > 6. > > ``` > When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." > > ``` > > 7. > > ``` > God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." (Genesis 9:11-17) > > ``` I find it only mildly ironic, in view of this thread, that the sign of the covenant never to wipe out mankind by a flood is the _rainbow_. If you are a hater, intent on identifying natural disasters as God’s anger against sinners, the actual content of the Bible doesn’t matter to you, except as it can be used to support your views. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/23 "2005-09-01T01:28:15Z")
If Yahweh was going to destroy a city for its wicked gayness you think he’d hurl a comet at Boston or Montreal, not devastate a bunch of red states! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/24 "2005-09-01T01:48:09Z")
Follow the money – God’s getting a piece of it all. And he’ll be around a lot longer than Meyer Lansky. > [@Miller](#): > > Not even God wants to mess with the Mob. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/25 "2005-09-01T01:51:42Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > If Yahweh was going to destroy a city for its wicked gayness you think he’d hurl a comet at Boston or Montreal, not devastate a bunch of red states! :rolleyes: Whoa, hey, careful with your God-meteors, there. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/26 "2005-09-01T02:10:32Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > If Yahweh was going to destroy a city for its wicked gayness you think he’d hurl a comet at Boston or Montreal, not devastate a bunch of red states! :rolleyes: Look, don’t start giving the Big Guy any ideas, okay? :eek: ---
**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, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/27 "2005-09-01T02:25:22Z")
Hey I’m a Bostonian (where the owls say “whom”). I didn’t think we had a reputation for “wicked gayness”. Although I am a rugged heterosexual :rolleyes: , I am proud that Massachusetts has had the guts to be the first and only state in the union to allow same-sex marriages. Now, all the children of right-wing politicians have a place to live and get married. Up yours Dick “the Draft-Dodger” Cheney !!! Nope no natural disasters here. Everything’s fine. (The humidity is really bad though - about 90%). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/28 "2005-09-01T02:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Brilliant rebuttal. Apparently all the poor brown people are closeted gays. That’s my take on it. Meanwhile, I think the gay community should move to Michigan or Wisconsin, where the worst thing we have is snow and crappy roads. I think it would be an excellent way to test these zealots thinking. If a tsunami wiped out Detroit first, really, who’d care? then, I’d start believing in this theory that God Smites Gays with Weather. Secondly, we really need Gay in the UP. It’s in desperate need of redecorating. Deer head wall decor, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/29 "2005-09-01T03:19:12Z")
It might be the fault of the lesbians, they keep saying on the news that the city is flooding because some dykes failed. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/30 "2005-09-01T03:19:59Z")
If I were one of those people screaming Bible verses, I would have picked “Jesus wept,” because it’s real easy to remember. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/31 "2005-09-01T03:23:22Z")
I’d just like to note (not entirely with pride) that I called it way back on [Sunday](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6517833&postcount=31), before Katrina even hit land. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/32 "2005-09-01T03:23:59Z")
> [@Jurhael](#): > > Piss off, that is. Or even better, piss on them. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/33 "2005-09-01T03:24:15Z")
The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella. But more upon the just, because The unjust hath the just’s umbrella. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/34 "2005-09-01T03:26:32Z")
It’s ludicrous to blame the hurricane on gays. Everyone knows that “Private Katrina” is merely working on [behalf of Islamic extremists](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050831/ap_on_re_eu/hurricane_katrina_world_hk4_5). ---
**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, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/35 "2005-09-01T03:27:03Z")
I say it’s time we used out natural-disaster causing powers for good. Let’s all head out to Jerry Falwell’s house and start gaying it up. Maybe we can get his home blighted by a swarm of locusts, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/36 "2005-09-01T04:03:25Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I say it’s time we used out natural-disaster causing powers for good. Let’s all head out to Jerry Falwell’s house and start gaying it up. Maybe we can get his home blighted by a swarm of locusts, or something. I thought Mel and his SO were already working on that end of things! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/37 "2005-09-01T04:12:00Z")
This is topical for me. Someone just gave me this book by Barbara Johnson called Put a geranium in your hat. Its her story, and from her first book, about how her faith helped her in her many tragedies in life. Her husband was in a bad accident and temporarily blinded. Then her son got killed in Vietnam. Then her other son was killed by a drunk driver. After all this happens, she finds gay porn in another son’s room.This,she says, was the worst day of her life. Amazing. ☹ I know itsnot about natural disasters being judgment, but it shocked me. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/38 "2005-09-01T05:55:43Z")
> [@Jurhael](#): > > [Is anyone surprised?](http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/08/083105nola.htm) > > I thought not. There’s nothing new under the Sun. Or, since we’re also talking about gays and Jesus, there’s nothing new on top of the Son. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/39 "2005-09-01T06:18:14Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > 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. Gomorrah was somewhat more laid back in its deviancy compared to Sodom. Lots of heavy petting and hickeys and such. They were also an untidy people who did leave pizza boxes strewn about and toenail clippings unswept. Had they simply heeded the word of the Lord and not continued putting unrinsed dishes into the dishwasher, they would have been fine. But they did irritate the Lord, who, co-sign or not, did see fit to evict them. And lo, the garbage disposal did smell sweet once more. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/40 "2005-09-01T06:49:47Z")
Personally, I think the Repent America crowd got upped. [Columbia Christians For Life says Katrina is God’s wrath on abortion clinics, claims storm has image of six-week-old fetus](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/31/0836/62623) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502.md?page=3)