NOM speaker blames East Coast earthquake on gays

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

NOM speaker blames East Coast earthquake on gays
Posted on 08.24.11
By David Edwards

Within hours of an earthquake striking the eastern U.S. Tuesday, a rabbi that has spoken for the anti-gay group National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was already blaming homosexuals.

In a video posted to YouTube, Rabbi Yehuda Levin asserted that “one of the reasons God brings earthquakes to the world is because of the transgressions of homosexuality.”

“An email went out in my community just a few hours ago, ‘How long will it take Rabbi Levin to tie this earthquake in with homosexual marriage?’” he began. “Not very long at all. I’m happy to see that people — even if some of them are scoffers — are starting to see the connection.”

“Yes, there is a direct connection between earthquakes and homosexuality. There was in Haiti and it is here, in New York, in Washington, D.C., where they passed homosexual legislation ordinances, in New York City and state, where they opened, especially on Sunday early, where they passed the homosexual marriage law.”



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[closeupready]

1. LOL Superstitions make me laugh.

:rofl:

[WAFS]

44. If the imaginary entity in the sky hates gays....

then why doesn't he/she/it punish them? Seems far more heteros and churches were affected than gays or lesbians.

[lunatica]

2. Who knew homosexuals were so powerful?

How does Rabbi Levin plan on stopping them from pissing God off? Legislation? LOL! That didn't stop the earthquakes before.

[rfranklin]

14. I hope they give him an earthquake up his tired old ass...

Love those all powerful gays!

[Pied Piper]

3. What a douchebag

Don't these people ever get tired of being wrong?

[Renew Deal]

4. Yes, the earthquake that only did damage to a church was Gods revenge.

:crazy:

NOM really is no better than Westboro Baptist

[SCantiGOP]

18. I remember a story from a history course

In the 17th and 18th century it was generally acknowledged that the fact that the town church was by far the most likely building to be hit by lightning and burn down had to be a response by God to the congregation's failings. Early in the 19th century they started putting lightning rods on the steeples of some churches and noticed that for some reason God quit burning those down.
And besides, I remember the old testament God being pretty good at smiting. Why would he kill bunches of god-fearing, bible-believing christians just to take out a few gays? If AIDS was sent by God to punish the gays, wasn't he clever enough to make it where an innocent child couldn't get it from a blood transfusion? Ignorance and fundamentalism is a dangerous combination, no matter what brand of religion is involved.

[No Elephants]

41. Lord knows, churches being the highest buildings in town didn't help the lightning situation.

Edited for a typo, one of thousands I make every week.

My keyboard must be controlled by gays, too!

[vademocrat]

5. Well, it happened in Eric Cantor's district - God must be mad at him!

[jwirr]

6. Is that why it was centered in Paul Ryan's district?

[Cant trust em]

7. dang gays. They're just messing everything up.

:sarcasm:

[Arugula Latte]

8. Religious idiocy strikes again...

and again ... and again ...

[SoapBox]

9. LMAO! What a bunch of freak'n idiots...

Idiots!

Guess it goes along with the Earth is FLAT and Earth is THE center of the universe.

[11 Bravo]

10. Then the Texas drought must mean that Rick Perry is one colossal asshole!

[orbitalman]

11. After Robertson...

You'd think they'd get over their utter stupidity by now.

[Erose999]

12. On one hand we have plate techtonics and continental drift. OTOH: OH NOES! TEH GAYS!!1!111

[leftynyc]

13. Whadda schmuck (n/t)

[SemperEadem]

15. what in the world do gays have to do with tectonic plates moving?

not a got damb thing.

god doesn't bring anything against the world... The earth has a core of molten iron that is constantly in a state of motion. The crust of the earth floats on top of it. There are fissures in the crust and that's why the plates are in constant motion.

It has nothing to do with god or any figment of anyone's imagination.

there is no direct connection between homosexuality and any kind of natural disaster.

[Scottybeamer70]

16. gays and quakes.......

heh.........if gays could only harness all that earth shattering energy,
imagine what they could control......

[David Sky]

17. If he had done the slightest bit of study of earthquakes, he would know that

there is an earthquake somewhere on the planet, almost every day of the year.

Often more than one!

This has been happening at this rate since before there were human beings on the planet.

But who needs scientific facts when a religion based upon ignorance, hate, and bigotry is involved?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

Earthquake Facts and Statistics
Frequency of Occurrence of Earthquakes

Magnitude Average Annually
8 and higher 1 ¹
7 - 7.9 15 ¹
6 - 6.9 134 ²
5 - 5.9 1319 ²
4 - 4.9 13,000
(estimated)
3 - 3.9 130,000
(estimated)
2 - 2.9 1,300,000
(estimated)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_2Dak6SyWY

[yellowcanine]

32. Everyone knows that the Flying Sphagetti Monster caused that earthquake!

As a result of the lack of belief in His Noodly Appendage

If everyone would just have faith and believe these earthquakes would stop!

[sakabatou]

19. NOM needs to get of this planet

[Bozita]

20. Oh shit... All this time, I thought Obama did it!

[David Sky]

22. Yes, Obama and gays, it was a conspiracy, and Obama was out of

DC, so he MUST HAVE KNOWN!!!!

[Bozita]

24. And Obama's using Satan to continue the Texas drought. That's supposed to discredit Perry.

Satan's involvement is why Perry's Prayerthon didn't work.

It all makes sense to me.

[David Sky]

30. Yes, deeply religious folks like us.... LOL who hate Obama and gays...

need to realize Satan is involved here, and has been ever since Obama was born and gays appeared out of nowhere in America,back in the 60's it all started in the 60's... Satan came to America because Obama and gays were here.

(People who read this I hope will understand!)

[Roland99]

21. I blame it on Domo! Domo Eat You!!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2TKmDoUornA/Te8v-0hcvEI/AAAAAAAAAB0/j3gGVBnSzF8/s1600/For+my+blog.gif

[Harry Monroe]

23. I'm getting on the bandwagon and blaming them for my male pattern baldness

Damn gays, responsible for so many things. (is the sarcasm tag really necessary here?)

[russspeakeasy]

29. If you really believe that, you are not as sophisticated as some

of us on this board...We know that male pattern baldness comes from stepping on cracks and breaking mirrors.....get with it Harry...:evilgrin: :toast:

[ldf]

35. please. male pattern baldness

was evolved by teh gays because it makes us so much more MASCULINE. just look at all the hot bald men!

you have got the gay.

there is no cure.

[KamaAina]

25. Oy vey. Virginia is perhaps the least GLBT-friendly state in the union.

Both Gov. McDonnell and especially AG (and rumored Senate candidate :scared: ) Cuccinelli are virulent homophobes who make Michele Bachmann look like Lady Gaga.

[sinkingfeeling]

26. And here I thought it was because of the Teabaggers wanting to kill off all the poor and sick!

[YankeyMCC]

27. Well good

without plate tectonics we wouldn't have the land we live on now.


I was about to put the question of "What caused quakes before there were humans?" Then I realized what his answer would be.

[Mz Pip]

28. Idiots

If God hated the gays so much He'd stop making them. :sarcasm:

[DissedByBush]

31. What about Iran?

They don't allow gays there, in fact they execute them.

They've had some devastating earthquakes, such as the one in Bam that killed over 25,000.

[Bozita]

33. Pat Robertson did that when he wasn't busy steering hurricanes.

[Zorra]

34. Dear Rabbi: 70 years ago Hitler would have blamed the earthquakes on

you. How soon people forget the results of mass hateful bigotry.

Disgraceful. בושה וחרפה


Here's a song for you, preacher man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poc-L_lUmaA

[sarcasmo]

36. Gays more powerful by the day. Crazy religious idiot.

[LetTimmySmoke]

37. I think birthers are to blame for the earthquake.

Prove me wrong.

[marasinghe]

38. so what's new. just another asshole blaming gays for his personal inability to get laid.

as a vegetarian, i, personally, could believe that this earthquake was caused by the kosher & halal orgy of cutting the throats of living animals and letting them bleed to death while hanging head down - and i would have the same probability of being correct, as this moron does.

[queerart]

39. The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same...

In the year 342, the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans declared the death penalty for a male who aped the role of a bride.<7> In the year 390, the Christian emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and Arcadius denounced males "acting the part of a woman", condemning those who were guilty of such acts to be publicly burned.<8>


The Christian emperor Justinian (527–565) made those who would now be called "homosexuals" a scape goat for problems such as "famines, earthquakes, and pestilences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity_and_homosexuality

[sudopod]

40. I hope that he has a really hateful cat. :/ nt

[No Elephants]

42. Then, please explain why the rain in Spain is mainly on the

Pope.

http://news.yahoo.com/bad-weather-interrupts-popes-speech-spain-214 (Reuters headline: Bad weather interrupts pope's speech in Spain)

[Marrah_G]

43. That must have been one hell of a party........