Did He or Didn't He?
Well, this is silly. Kartina made landfall on Monday, 29 August. The "enormous gay rights celebration", known as "Southern Decadence", takes place on Memorial-Day weekend, which is to say it didn't even get started until 5 days later.
As I've pointed out before, if He was really so upset with New Oreans over the homo angle, surely He would have waited until the weekend to toss a hurricane its direction so He could have taken out a whole slew of faggots, right?
Either that, or this group is making the dangerous assertion that His aim is only good to plus-or-minus 5 days, which doesn't sound like a good thing to suggest about their Omnipotent One.
Gay rights supporters in Maine gained little solace Wednesday from a religious conservative group's defense of its suggestion that Hurricane Katrina's landfall might have purposefully coincided with a gay pride celebration in New Orleans.
"The view that such events are caused by God is a matter of opinion – faith if you will – and are not capable of proof," Michael Heath, the executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, wrote in Wednesday's edition of the group's online newsletter. "Every man must decide for himself whether or not Hurricane Katrina brought the wrath of God down on New Orleans.
"So we are not blaming the homosexuals for the disaster," continued Heath, whose group is spearheading the "people's veto" campaign aimed at repealing Maine's new gay rights law at the Nov. 8 referendum.
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Heath's original post read: "By an odd coincidence – and it was perhaps no more than a coincidence – an enormous gay rights celebration was scheduled for New Orleans just as the worst natural disaster ever to strike our nation was venting its full fury on that helpless city."["Heath tries to quell storm", Bangor Daily News, 8 September 2005.]