# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/41 "2005-09-01T09:19:19Z")
I don’t know about Jesus, but stuff like this makes me weep. When these people were cherry-picking the Bible, didn’t they come across Matthew 25:31-46 (emphasis mine)? > [@Jesus](#): > > "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. > > "Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. \*\*For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ \*\* > > "Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ > > "The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ > > "Then he will say to those on his left, \*\*‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ \*\* > > "They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ > > "He will reply, \*\*‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ > > “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”\*\* There are a lot of folks in New Orleans who are hungry, thirsty, and in need of shelter and clothing. I’ve seen the way this country responds to disasters. I know that already folks are gearing up to send food, clothes and anything else needed to folks throughout the affected area, and I know mine will be among them, which is one reason I go to it. Some people, however, would prefer to condemn others rather than actuall get off their butts and do something. I’m sorry, folks. I really and truly am. CJ ---
**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, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/42 "2005-09-01T09:21:04Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > 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. They never got a sexual act named after them, though. The Gomorrah Tourist Bureau must have been kicking themselves: “It’s all about _positioning_, people. I mean, just look at the visitor numbers for Sodom this last quarter: tourists just gotta hear the name Sodomite and they think, ‘hell yes, that’s where _I’m_ taking the family this year!’ And what’ve _we_ got? The low-spending slovenly college student demographic! I tell you, we’ve got to _engage_ with the market or we’re toast here, numbers-wise. Say, is it getting a little hot in here? You want to open a window there, Bob?” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/43 "2005-09-01T11:00:30Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > 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. “And the Lord sent a rainbow as a sign Ain’t gonna be water but _fire_ next time.” ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/44 "2005-09-01T13:07:15Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > I don’t know about Jesus, but stuff like this makes me weep. When these people were cherry-picking the Bible, didn’t they come across Matthew 25:31-46 (emphasis mine)? > > There are a lot of folks in New Orleans who are hungry, thirsty, and in need of shelter and clothing. I’ve seen the way this country responds to disasters. I know that already folks are gearing up to send food, clothes and anything else needed to folks throughout the affected area, and I know mine will be among them, which is one reason I go to it. Some people, however, would prefer to condemn others rather than actuall get off their butts and do something. > > I’m sorry, folks. I really and truly am. > CJ Siege, we just need to take solace in the fact that a good majority of the religious right, if there truly is a God, will be going to Hell. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/45 "2005-09-01T13:57:18Z")
If it’s judgement against the wickedness of the city, then why is the French Quarter just about the only section that wasn’t flooded? Pretty poor aim there, God. ---
**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, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/46 "2005-09-01T21:42:27Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > 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. I realize _all_ of this didn’t happen in just one day, but I still had a mild involuntary chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/47 "2005-09-01T22:36:01Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > If it’s judgement against the wickedness of the city, then why is the French Quarter just about the only section that wasn’t flooded? Pretty poor aim there, God. Yeah, and didn’t He notice that voters in Louisiana and Mississippi actually approved amendments to their state constitutions last fall banning same-sex marriage? And Alabama has already put a similar amendment on their ballot for 2006? Wasn’t that homophobic enough for Him? All this time, other states like Massachusetts and Vermont and Hawaii and Connecticut are allowing gay domestic partnerships or civil unions or even outright marriage, and remain unsmited? What can He be thinking? (Unless maybe it’s “Don’t be a homophobic jerk”?) (No, I am not actually enough of an insensitive moron to believe that the tragic deaths of innocent people in catastrophic natural disasters constitute some kind of divine referendum on sexual permissiveness. But if I were, I tell you, these events might puzzle me some.) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/48 "2005-09-01T23:04:40Z")
By my accounting, that would require you to 1) be able to change your beliefs in accordance with the facts, but 2) “believe that the tragic deaths of innocent people in catastrophic natural disasters constitute some kind of divine referendum on sexual permissiveness” in the first place. Does not compute. ---
**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 2, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/49 "2005-09-02T00:24:18Z")
Yep. Massachusetts resident here. Let me look - nope - no natural disasters today - even the oppressive 90% humidty this week is starting to let up. ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/50 "2005-09-02T00:37:57Z")
That’s really disturbing. I was considering a joke question along the lines of, “Did God send Katrina to punish the South for its christianity and racism?” but decided not to. Apparently some people can’t pull back from such stupidity when it’s not even meant as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/51 "2005-09-02T00:57:01Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > They never got a sexual act named after them, though. The Gomorrah Tourist Bureau must have been kicking themselves: “It’s all about _positioning_, people. I mean, just look at the visitor numbers for Sodom this last quarter: tourists just gotta hear the name Sodomite and they think, ‘hell yes, that’s where _I’m_ taking the family this year!’ And what’ve _we_ got? The low-spending slovenly college student demographic! I tell you, we’ve got to _engage_ with the market or we’re toast here, numbers-wise. Say, is it getting a little hot in here? You want to open a window there, Bob?” Didn’t the name gonorhea come from Gomorrah? ---
**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 2, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/52 "2005-09-02T03:19:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Didn’t the name gonorhea come from Gomorrah? No. That’s a folk etymology. Gonorrhea is from the Greek “gonos” = “seed” and “rhoe” = “flow” because the discharge was thought to be semen. The “rrhea” segment is also found (with the same meaning) in “diarrhea” and “dysmenorrhea”. ---
**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 2, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/53 "2005-09-02T13:01:55Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > It might be the fault of the lesbians, they keep saying on the news that the city is flooding because some dykes failed. HAH! ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/54 "2005-09-02T13:20:27Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 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. Because, secretly, they want to be gay. They just can’t afford fabulous decor in their little one-room shacks. On preview, I guess I’m just agreeing with **Shirley**. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/55 "2005-09-02T18:48:21Z")
It seems Trent Lott lost his beach house. Hmmmm ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/56 "2005-09-02T18:59:58Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > It seems Trent Lott lost his beach house. Hmmmm Now I have the image workers repairing or cleaning the area and wondering what could be scarier: Finding a fire ant ball, or one of Trent Lott’s Toupees… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/57 "2005-09-02T19:01:17Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > It seems Trent Lott lost his beach house. Hmmmm Now I have the image **of** workers repairing or cleaning the area and wondering what could be scarier: Finding a fire ant ball, or one of Trent Lott’s Toupees… ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/58 "2005-09-02T19:24:10Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > If it’s judgement against the wickedness of the city, then why is the French Quarter just about the only section that wasn’t flooded? Pretty poor aim there, God. Yeah, you’d think God could get some kind of pin-point accuracy that would put a smart bomb to shame. Not that he’d need it, trying to hit a city with a hurricane. My question is, if God was trying to Hit NO, why was it a near miss and not a direct hit? Some butterfly throwing his aim off? ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/59 "2005-09-02T19:50:54Z")
Incredible and sad what mean-spirited, ignorant people there are in this world - to blame events of nature on things they don’t like that other people do. Ya just have to shake your head in wonder and disgust. Anyway, here’s a quote from an interesting article about the dire situation on the Gulf Coast: "Folks, it is time to take a good hard look at this nation. We have an administration that wants to rebuild Iraq, to bring Freedom, but generations of black people in this country have never been free, they have just been poor. We can’t even fix our own infrastructure, yet Halliburton gets the contracts to rebuild Iraq? Who will rebuild the gulf coast? When will the hordes of flag-waving, Christian Republicans realize that we are as sheep without a shepard? Bush’s Christianity makes me want to puke. If Bush can claim to be a Christian, after smirking in his Rose Garden address about people wanting the help quickly, then he should start to put anti-Christ before his name. " [http://www.therevealer.org/archives/main\_story\_002069.php](http://www.therevealer.org/archives/main_story_002069.php) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502/60 "2005-09-02T19:56:11Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > 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. 🆒 Make sure you drink lots of whiskey between now and March. That will give you some man-boobs. 'Cause you have to show your boobs to get beads. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gays-blamed-for-katrina/319502.md?page=4)