C’mon. There are plenty of things that we can rightfully blame gays for, but earthquakes?
News.com.au -Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party said the only way to prevent the earthquakes was for parliament to stop liberalising laws concerning homosexuals, AP reported.
“Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which the Knesset (parliament) gives legitimacy, to sodomy,” Mr Benizri said.
Mr Benizri said earthquake damage could be avoided if the parliament stopped “passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes”.
Shlomo. I am no less opposed to sodomy than you, but blaming them for earthquakes is a bit much. Here are some disasters that I DO blame gays for:
- Ruining the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
- Metrosexuals
- Making Reality TV Even Worse: Ever since that fat gay guy won Survivor, every reality show needs a gay person. The bigger the flamer, the better.
- Taking up all the good rooms at the seminaries in the ’70s and ’80s.
- The fifth season of “Ellen”
- The Home and Garden Network.
- We can no longer call a bundle of sticks by its rightful name.
- Cher
- That we have to pretend that Harvey Fierstein has talent.
- For trying to teach my children that sin is not sin.
- And for trying to destroy marriage.
Still, blaming them for earthquakes is over the top. Tornadoes, maybe. And possibly volcanoes. But definitely not earthquakes. Oh, oh, mudslides for sure…
February 24, 2008 at 3:43 am
For taking Portia de Rossi to your team and leaving Amy Winehouse on ours…
February 24, 2008 at 7:03 am
I bet that this:
A 1977 law ensures a low-cost, and in some cases free, legal abortion to any woman who fills one of four criteria:
She is under 18 or over 40 (cost to those in between: 1,500 shekels [$370]).
She is carrying a fetus with a serious mental or physical defect (free).
She claims that the fetus results from forbidden relations such as rape or incest (free) or, in the case of a married woman, that the baby is not her husband’s (not free). Single women also fall under this clause, and they too must pay.
She shows that by continuing the pregnancy, her physical or mental health would be damaged (free).
also
In 1999, 19,674 applications out of 20,581 were approved (96%) and 18,785 pregnancies were terminated. In addition, 16,000 abortions were illegally performed in private doctors’ clinics. In general, about 40,000 abortions are carried out in Israel every year. The Health Ministry approves about half of them, and private doctors perform the rest, without the supervision of the state and at the cost of thousands of shekels.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Health/abort1.html
Angers God more still than 1% (at best) of the population engaging in homogenital sodomy.
Maybe those cause a different natural disastor?
February 24, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Simple Sinner,
I think Fire and Brimstone is reserved for the abomination of abortion.
Still, for legitimizing homosexuality, I think that at least a plague of frogs is warranted.
February 24, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I blame gays for the the addition of the word “phobe” to anyone who disagrees with you,
February 25, 2008 at 3:48 am
I can’t prove it, but I think gays are also responsible for man bags. That just isn’t right.
February 25, 2008 at 3:53 am
I can’t prove it, but I blame them for all colognes now havint a crisp citrussy smell.
I don’t want to smell like lemon.
February 25, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Although I do agree with you that earthquakes are not caused by gays (of course), Mr. Benizri does have a lot of support from the Old Testament to his way of thinking.
Much of the OT history books declare that all the problems experienced by the Chosen People are caused by unfaithfulness to Yahweh. This includes political problems, foreign invasions, and natural disasters. Thus, I can see how an ultra-Orthodox Jew could see a connection between homosexuality and earthquakes.
February 25, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Here’s what I thank gays for: pushing gay legislation like gay marriage that makes Democrats kowtow and reveal themselves to be lunatics on social issues.
February 25, 2008 at 5:07 pm
“that makes Democrats kowtow and reveal themselves to be lunatics on social issues.”
Mostly reveals how greedy they are for the gay lobby money.
February 27, 2008 at 8:21 pm
You’re welcome! 🙂
— Gay Gayerson
February 27, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Although, we really can’t take credit for destroying marriage since 50% of you filed for divorce all by yourselves.
See you at Mass on Sunday!
– Gay Gayerson
February 27, 2008 at 8:39 pm
“Although, we really can’t take credit for destroying marriage since 50% of you filed for divorce all by yourselves.”
Fair enough. Actually, in all fairness, well before Stonewall, “Playboy After Dark” was on CBS and the glorification of non-marital sterile sex was already in full swing. It seems “gays” are owed an apology…
Who can blame “gays” for wanting in on some of that action? If sex is recreation, whatever is clever, right? Why not?
Sadly, just following the lead of the “hetero free lovers” actually proved to have – often times – even sadder effects as STDs, drug use, alcholism and depression hit the community of men who have sex with men even harder than their free-lovin’ straight brethren… Sorry about that.
See you at Mass on Sunday!
– Celibate McSleepsalone