God about these natural disasters its the gays isnt it
Does God send messages by tornado?
If you don’t consider this is strange, it’s only because you haven’t thought of it yet.
Remember August of 2009, when the Lutherans were conference in Minneapolis? They voted to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy. During the meeting, a tornado hit the convention center and nearby Primary Lutheran Church. The Rev. Tom Brock (who later turned admitted struggling with his own sexual orientation) called the tornado an act of God.
“It was God saying ‘hello,’ and sadly, the Lutherans ignored it,” Brock said on a radio show.
Jump ahead to 2011. Two nights ago, a vote by ministers and elders encounter in St. Louis Park cleared the way for the nation’s largest Presbyterian group to reverse its ban on openly lgbtq+ members of the clergy. And what was the other breaking news story of Tuesday evening?
Minnesota’s first tornado of 2011, that’s what. It touched down in Wright County, a far piece from St. Louis Park. But still.
Now, people are just asking for trouble when they try to discern the hand of God in severe weather, let alone in natural disasters or terrorist
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Source: The Great Time of His Wrath, John Martin (1851)
It’s hurricane season and televangelist Pat Robertson is at it again.
On Monday during a 700 Club TV appearance, with Hurricane Florence bearing down on the East Coast, Robertson commanded the coming storm to “cease its forward motion and travel harmlessly into the Atlantic… up north and away from land and veer off, in the call of Jesus!” Citing relate to over potential damage to his own Christian Broadcasting Network and Regent University, both located in Virginia Beach, Robertson declared a “shield of protection all over Tidewater and… a shield of protection over those innocent people in the path of this hurricane.”
This isn’t the first time Robertson has invoked the name of Jesus to put up a “wall of protection” against impending cyclones. In this week’s speech, he claimed to have successfully done so against Hurricane Esther back in 1961, going so far as to describe how it stopped and turned around as if a dog obeying his command. After making similar claims in 1985 after Hurricane Gloria, he noted that his noticeable ability to control weather served as inspiration to run for president, stating, “if I coul
When Disaster Strikes: 4 Ways the Climate Crisis Impacts LGBTQI+ People
Although the impact of the climate crisis will be universal, its effects will not be felt equally. Whileresearch shows that these communities are disproportionately impacted by climate change, LGBTQI+ subjectivities have been routinely invisible in mainstream discussions about those worst affected by climate disasters. Here are four examples of how LGBTQI+ people are more vulnerable to climate change.
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4 Ways the Climate Crisis Impacts LGBTQI+ People
1. Discrimination of LGBTQI+ People in Disaster Relief
Evidence from past disasters has shown that the quotidian marginalisation experienced by gay and trans people is compounded when disaster strikes.Research on the impact of disasters on LGBTQI+ people in the United States create that they life barriers to proper healthcare, difficulty accessing food and rain rations, and securing emergency shelters after being displaced by environmental disasters.
This issue is not singular to the US. In many countries, the prevalence of legal discrimination towards sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) works to exclude these communities from accessing
Lastweekultra-right-wing rabbi Noson Leiter of Torah Jews for Decency referred to Hurricane Sandy as " celestial justice" for the state of Novel York's 2011 legalization of marriage for same-sex couples. Leiter, referring to drop Manhattan as "one of the national centers of homosexuality," argued that "the Great Flood in the time of Noah was ... triggered by the recognition of same-gender marriages." He warned that "the Lord will not transport another flood to destroy the entire world, but He could punish particular areas with a flood." Leiter gave as evidence to prove his assertions the appearance of a "double rainbow" above the town after the storm, together with a high tide during the full moon.
Others, most notably some conservative Christian leaders, have long held lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders and transgender (LGBT) people responsible for causing many of the greatest instinctive disasters of new times. For example, in May 1978 Anita Bryant, Florida orange juice spokeswoman and chief organizer of the so-called "Save Our Children" campaign to overturn an LGBT-rights ordinance in Dade County, called homosexuals "human garbage" and blamed their supposedly sinful behavior for a drought tha
Are homosexuals and transgendered people more at risk from natural disasters than the rest of the population? I dare say there is a robust tranche of right-of-centre opinion which holds that they are indeed more at uncertainty and that by and large this is a very good thing. Instinctive disasters are sometimes called ‘acts of God’ and those of a deeply conservative disposition may be inclined to see them as a punishment from the Almighty for serious transgressions of a sexual or gender nature. It is God doing what God does best – a spot of appropriate smiting.
When organisations talk about equity, they mean privileging one group over another group
The rest of us might enquire why, if this is so, God allows perfectly decent vertical people to be killed alongside the supposed transgressors in natural disasters – and the only respond forthcoming seems to be that His righteous vengeance is not always pinpoint in its accuracy and nor should we anticipate it to be so. Either that or He is intent on exacting retribution upon both the deviants and those who tolerate deviants within their midst. I have to say I find this argument unconvincing and, as it is advanced by only a small percentage of pe