# Them Gays Caused Katrina ... AND Wilma **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902 "2005-10-25T23:01:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/41 "2005-10-27T02:12:26Z")
And now, one of the oddest links ever… [Rock On!](http://zangla.ytmnd.com/) Because he’s a lean, mean **bear** -wrestling machine. :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/42 "2005-10-27T05:49:25Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > If God’s so pissed at gays, then why hasn’t San Fran been leveled by an earthquake? If things like gambling, drinking, and prostitution anger God, then why has _nothing_ bad happened to the state of Nevada?\* You’re not the first person to ask this question… One of the survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (and subsequent fire) is the [Hotaling Building](http://www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf012.asp), which at the time was a major storehouse of whiskey: > [@](#): > > Clergymen scolded from the few remaining pulpits that the disaster was God’s divine retribution for the wickedness of San Franciscans. Charles Field responded: > _If, as they say, God spanked the town > For being over-frisky, > Why did He burn His churches down > And spare Hotaling’s whiskey?_ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/43 "2005-10-28T02:26:16Z")
After the Great Johnstown Flood, people also tried to claim that it was God’s wrath. When they heard this, the folks in Johnstown would point to the hillsides where all the brothels were left standing unscathed and said, “God sure had poor aim, then.” ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/44 "2005-10-28T10:09:16Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > “Gimme that **old-time** religion…” ? 😛 All right, [you asked for it!](http://www.whitetreeaz.com/vintage/realotr.htm) (A note to the Mods: Believe it or not, this _is_ a small sample from the website. If you don’t believe me, have a look for yourself. It’s also pure filk at it’s best or worst. If I’ve quoted too much, please cut a verse or two, but leave in the one I mentioned I couldn’t find on their website. The Wiccan friend I mentioned sang it too me, but the version he sang was limited to New Age religions.) > [@](#): > > It was good enough for Buddha, > As a god he’s kinda cute-a, > And he comes in brass or pewta’ > So he’s good enough for me! > > It was good for Aphrodite > It was good for Aphrodite > Cause she doesn’t wear a nightie > And that’s good enough for me! > Let us bow to mighty UNIX > And its heiroglyphic runix > Wearing print-out paper tunix > And that’s good enough for me! > > (A favorite of a Wiccan friend of mine) > Well the Christians all are humming > Cause they say their God is coming, > Our God came three times this evening > And that’s good enough for me! > > (One the website doesn’t have! :eek: ) > Here’s to Menachem Begin, > Who worked with Ronald Reagan > He’s too _Jewish_ to be Pagan! > But he’s good enough for me! > > (One for our resident Atheists) > There are those who worship no gods > For they think that there are low odds > That the god-seers aren’t drunk sods > And they’re good enough for me! > Alternate Chorus: > Gimme NO kind-a religion > Gimme NO kind-a religion > Gimme NO kind-a religion > It simply ain’t for me! > > (Finally) > If you think these verses floor us > Then go write another chorus > Just as long as you don’t bore us > Then it’s good enough for me! CJ ---
**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:** [October 28, 2005, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/45 "2005-10-28T11:27:57Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > [Link](http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47021) > > Yes, not content to drawing down God’s wrath on New Orleans by holding Southern Decadence, the Gay Agenda Workgroup Delegation (GAWD) tried for a twofer by holding Fantasy Fest in Key West, thus drawing Wilma to destroy that noted resort city. :rolleyes: > > Will **somebody** please tell these loons to STFU?? On a serious note, Poly, there’s no real way to get them to shut up. The only way to combat this is to have people of faith come forward and argue against their interpretation of events. I wish it was otherwise but there it is. By the politics of demographics each group has to attempt to control their own nutjobs. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/46 "2005-10-28T15:09:07Z")
On behalf of all of the gays that wish for me to represent them, I apologize. I didn’t realize that our lives of wild sodomy and disrespect for the lord would make God come smite the devout Christians. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/47 "2005-10-28T15:32:00Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Of course Wilma is an agent of God’s wrath, directed at places where homosexuality is celebrated. > > That’s why she hit Cuba first. > > No, wait, that doesn’t make sense. > > First she smote the commies, and _then_ she moved in on the “fag-enablers.” > > That works, but only if you allow that it’s a non-prioritized list God’s working from. That’s one non-prioritised list! Or why are the hurricanes avoiding Canada? I mean, we have _legal gay marriage_[ and everything! It’s so last-month’s-news that it’s gotten boring and we’ve had to whip up some political scandals and sporadic urban gunfire to compensate! ---
**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:** [October 28, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/48 "2005-10-28T15:36:35Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > On behalf of all of the gays that wish for me to represent them, I apologize. I didn’t realize that our lives of wild sodomy and disrespect for the lord would make God come smite the devout Christians. He’s just trying to collect them all to His bosom before any more can catch the Gay. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/49 "2005-10-28T15:43:27Z")
> [@Fionn](#): > > I wondered about that myself. The fabulous and well-known gay hotspots of…Beaumont and Port Arthur? An honest mistake. When is the last time you met a man named Beaumont or Arthur (that went by their full name) that _wasn’t_ gay? ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/50 "2005-10-28T16:19:24Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > It’s as routine as the annual letter to the editor calling Halloween a satanic holiday, although in all fairness, I haven’t seen that one yet this year. Why be fair? C’mon and join [the party!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=341686) > [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > I think it’s because Jesus only ate part of the pomegranate seeds. I think that you mean [Persephone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone). Pomegranate seeds make the Baby Jesus cry. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/51 "2005-10-28T17:54:03Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > On behalf of all of the gays that wish for me to represent them, I apologize. I didn’t realize that our lives of wild sodomy and disrespect for the lord would make God come smite the devout Christians. Please continue. Although I am straight, I can increase my incidences of sodomy if that will help the cause. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/52 "2005-10-28T18:25:29Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Or why are the hurricanes avoiding Canada? I mean, we have _legal gay marriage_[ and everything! It’s so last-month’s-news that it’s gotten boring and we’ve had to whip up some political scandals and sporadic urban gunfire to compensate! They seem to avoid San Francisco and Massachusetts, too, for some reason. And why didn’t the constitutional ban on gay marriage that got overwhelmingly passed by the voters in Louisiana last year seem to help them this year? ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/53 "2005-10-28T19:27:48Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > They seem to avoid San Francisco and Massachusetts, too, for some reason. Yeah, but Boston evidently has [dumb-fuck pedestrians](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=341343), so it isn’t all peaches and cream. Hmmmm…I wonder how many of them got the gay? ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/54 "2005-10-29T20:35:29Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > … Much of the world—including many of our enemies—is socially “conservative” enough that they have a safely low level of active homosexuals. While this, normally, keeps them safe from major deiogenetic natural disaster, it obviously leaves them vulnerable to **meteorsexual** attack, AND unable to easily retaliate in kind. … Wow… I didn’t know any group was powerful enough to bring natural disasters out of the atmosphere! I thought the gays causing hurricanes was amazing, but now you tell me there are -sexuals who can bring huge rocks tumbling out of space? Sweet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/55 "2005-10-29T21:30:23Z")
I love you guys. I really, really do. **Tuckerfan** , if you win America in 2008, I’ll be Prime Minister of Canada by then. Give my office a ring, we’ll talk. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/56 "2005-10-29T22:08:17Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > **Tuckerfan** , if you win America in 2008, I’ll be Prime Minister of Canada by then. Give my office a ring, we’ll talk. 😉 About a “merger” between our two great nations? (Why not? After all, America’s been screwing Canada for years, might as well make it official.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/57 "2005-10-29T22:43:23Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > Wow… I didn’t know any group was powerful enough to bring natural disasters out of the atmosphere! I thought the gays causing hurricanes was amazing, but now you tell me there are -sexuals who can bring huge rocks tumbling out of space? Sweet. 😉 You’ve been out of the loop for a while. We can even do it long distance. Tell me if your neighbor’s music ever gets too loud. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/58 "2005-10-30T15:40:07Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > Wow… I didn’t know any group was powerful enough to bring natural disasters out of the atmosphere! I thought the gays causing hurricanes was amazing, but now you tell me there are -sexuals who can bring huge rocks tumbling out of space? Sweet. 😉 [nitpick]Meteorsexuals produce the shooting stars. Those who can bring those rocks tumbling out of space are actually meteoritesexuals.[/nitpick] I’ve always wondered how the adjective “flaming” originated. Another question answered… ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/59 "2005-10-30T17:59:14Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > On behalf of all of the gays that wish for me to represent them, I apologize. I didn’t realize that our lives of wild sodomy and disrespect for the lord would make God come smite the devout Christians. With our awesome power, the ability to control the elements of nature, we could get ourselves a nice military contract. Have your secretary call my secretary, and we’ll hash out the details 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902/60 "2005-10-30T19:10:27Z")
> [@Plynck](#): > > [nitpick]Meteorsexuals produce the shooting stars. Those who can bring those rocks tumbling out of space are actually meteoritesexuals.[/nitpick] > > I’ve always wondered how the adjective “flaming” originated. Another question answered… In that case, we can all give thanks that there are no giantasteroidsexuals! Except maybe Goatse! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/them-gays-caused-katrina-and-wilma/327902.md?page=4)