A region is in ruins, but at least ‘Southern Decadence’ has been cancelled

August 31, 2005

This morning, we noted that Christian Life and Liberty.net sent out an email alert to its base, explaining their belief that Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in part because Louisiana has 10 abortion clinics. As the group explained, the hurricane looks like a fetus, which is “proof” that God is sending us a “message.”

Now, the group has sent out another message. Apparently, members have changed their minds — Katrina isn’t just about abortion, it’s also about gays.

We’ve just received another email from the group, and now it seems to be saying that God sent Katrina after Louisiana to prevent Southern Decadence, an annual gay-themed bash that was scheduled for Labor Day weekend in New Orleans.

The Columbia Christians for Life forwarded to us a press release from a Philadelphia-based outfit called Repent America. In it, Repent American director Michael Marcavage explains: “Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city. From ‘Girls Gone Wild’ to ‘Southern Decadence,’ New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same.”

It was only a matter of time before the far right started saying, “New Orleans deserved it.”

Some days, it’s hard to hide my contempt for these people.

Why hide it in times like this? Seriously.

  • There may be 10 abortion clinics and however many gays but there’s also ~ 712 churches. Seems like ol’ God’s got that cutting off of one’s nose to spite one’s face issue going on. Of course, the individuals and churches that were sacrificed to Katrina will just be martyr’s for the cause. I’m sure that will make them feel much better.

    I’ve heard of Jesus face in a potato chip and on a tortilla but a fetus shaped hurricane? I saw Dobson’s face in a dog turd the other day. The turd dried up though and now it looks like Pat Robertson. Think I could declare it a holy relic and start a pilgrimage site? It wouldn’t make any money. I’d have to call it Fraud on a Turd and my credibility would go right out the window. Dang.

  • Why is that the GOP gets away with asserting that liberals hate America, when these groups clearly and unequivocably hate America. I don’t get it.

  • God has sent a catastrophic hurricane to Norleans to send us all a message that sin is bad?

    Hasn’t She ever heard of a phone? email? faxes? snail mail?

    Seriously, I can’t even imagine what kind of existence that must be like, living and believing crazy things like that. That’s not even religion, it’s madness masquerading as religion. If they were to explain their beliefs to a psychiatrist they’d probably be told they should be hosptialized to treat their delusions.

  • Attacking an entire population to make a political point?

    Clearly, god is a terrorist.

  • As a New Orleanian who is relieved that here brother and his family got out after taking shelter in a hotel – that is just FU*KING BATSHIT INSANE.

    Not only unhelpful, but unwarranted and just FU*KING BATSHIT INSANE.

  • God is all knowing. The “gays” wern’t due in the Big Easy till this weekend. If God wanted to kill the gays He would have made the Hurricane hit 6 days latter. By the way, attributing evil to God is blasphemy.

  • God spoke to me and told me that he was going to
    send a hurricane to punish the Red States for
    voting for Bush.

  • For their god is a sloppy god. He takes a category four hurricane to make a point. The hurricane misses its main target and heads into innocent states. Then their god realizes he missed the heart of decadence, the french quarter, and breaks a levee as an after thought to finish the job. I mean even Zeus had better accuracy, and he’s just a myth.

  • So, God took New Orleans et al back to the stone ages and killed (by some new estimates) literally THOUSANDS of people with a hurricane shaped like a fetus…to get back at the gays and the sinners? Judge not lest ye be judged there ya’ll. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

    I CANNOT believe the complete DISREGARD for human life that these “so called Christians” espouse. Makes me SICK, literally……

  • Timmy these people don’t really care about human life at all – they never did no matter they squaking.

  • Actually, Rapture’s Red state observation works for the batshit brain crowd (thanks ET) as well.

    Red States vote for Bush, abortions are up under Bush’s presidency, God punishes the Red States…

    If you have a brain the size of a tic-tac, maybe it works. Unfortunately, wealthy gays fled, woman who can afford abortions largely fled, doctors who perform abortion fled…

    Direct wrath largely went to the poor. After that, the impact on oil and sea food prices is going to be staggering (something like 1/5 and 1/3 of US production).

    So, God Hates the poor, seafood eaters, and automobiles/power plants. The first two make sense if Jesus was just a guy and the New Testament is bunk. The last one I’m still noodling. Two oil guys in the White House, belonging to the party least likely to embrace green little hybrids – maybe it’s back to God hating Republicans.

    Humor aside, these creatures aren’t even human, let alone remotely Christian.

    -jjf

  • God’s sense of Intelligent Design has been offended for some time now that New Orleans actually exists below sea level. That’s not right and now the waters have been permitted to achieve a more correct and Godly equilibrium. I.D. has a part to play not just in education but in city planning as well.

    Praise the Lord.

  • Waddiya mean “some days” it’s hard to hide your contempt for these people, CB? They’re contemptible beyond belief 365 days a year. The fact that they exist is reason enough, says a plurality of me.

  • I’m with you, Shadow. But only 365? What about leap years? Or should we reserve one day every four years to respect willful ignorance?

    Nah!

  • Excuse me for butting into y’all’s affairs here, folks. but I gotta pipe in on this discussion and the stuff I put in my first book just ain’t covering the crazy stuff some of you humans come up with. I created free will and, aside from the occasional small miracle to keep the homefires burning, I pretty much stay outa y’all folks’ affairs.

    So lemme be real clear about this. I had nothing to do with Hurricane Katrina. This wasn’t my doing. I created the heavens and the earth and all the matters of the firmament, but I never said I’d micromanage it to keep y’all all comfy. Your free will gives you the power to handle most of what comes along in your lives and the natural love for one another that you have in your hearts–though some of y’all ignore it–is there to make everyone treat each other all decent like as you muddle thru y’all admittedly brief lives on this planet.

    I did not send Katrina to punish the gays; I did not send Katrina to punish the abortionists. And despite how some of you smart alecks would have it, I did not send Katrina to punish the numerous churchgoers of New Orleans. That just ain’t my bag, people. I’m all about tha luv, dig? Quit using natural catastrophes as excuses to say I’m out to get people you personally got a problem with. Besides being blasphemy (which really I never had that big a problem with in the first place), it’s also damned tacky. And I do mean “damned,” if you get the hint.

    Bottom line: give money to the Red Cross and quit being jerks. Oh, and please note, that is not an Eleventh Commandment. It’s just common sense. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a Beethoven concert to go to.

    (PS, Tupac is up here with me. Quit being gullible, too)

    —God

  • Love and thanks to all of you for making me laugh and reminding me I’m not alone. I am especially grateful to burro for pointing out that there are over 700 churches in New Orleans. I’d die happy if just one reporter would ask one of these wackos to comment on their god’s explanation for that. I can’t wait to hear my born-again sisters stammering out an answer to that one. How can so many people be so blind to their own mendacity?

    I don’t have the energy or the desire to hide my contempt any more; it would be a full-time job. Some nights I can’t fall asleep because I am seething with rage over how far we have fallen so fast, and there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight. How low can they go?

  • How about our brothers and sisters in Iraq? They’ve been without food, water, electricity for a couple of years now. Is God punishing them for W’s arrogance? Oh wait, God talks to George…maybe there is something to this..
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  • Nice to see that Christian principles are alive and well…even while many along the Gulf Coast are not.

    These people are turds.

  • Okay, well if right wing fanatics are going to say God is punishing people with the Hurricane. Then, one could say, God is punishing the States that voted for Bush in the election. The States that were hit by Katrina were all Red States. So, by their reasoning God is telling those States that they should NOT have voted for Bush.

  • I always tweak the wingnuts with this one. God is omnipotent. Therefore, the world is going exactly the way He wants. Are you denying God’s omnipotence? Is God so weak he needs you to do his job?
    It usually gives them a headache with the side benefit of leaving me the fuck alone.

  • If god hates liberals et al, then why haven’t San-Fransisco, Seatle, New York, Boston etc. been dropped into the sea, or engulfed in flames?

  • Well, we sat around yesterday chatting and wondering how long before the zealots would come up with this kind of crap. It is kind of gratifying to know that we did not have to wait very long for it to appear.

    I suspect that the reason they are not lamenting the loss of innocent life in the region too much is largely because those lifes were wearing the wrong colour skin anyway. Same reason this group never says much about Iraq – not only do they have the wrong colour skin they have the audacity to worship the wrong God as well…

  • I think there’s about a billion Muslims saying that Allah has punished us for the Iraq fiasco.

    I guess it all depends on how you look at it.

    (personally, I think it was a weather problem)

  • Hey you guys out there in lala land…..don’t worry about all the B.S. amongst yourselves. Worry about the pestilence, disease, infection and death that awaits many who are there. YOU could be there. These letters should be directed to President Bush – who needs to ban his own pride and let Canadians come to the rescue and help these needy people. Let’s face it, Canada has been helping the less fortunate for over 200 years. Stop the bickering, chest poking, back biting, finger pointing, argumentative attitudes – think about the lame and the sick and the lost and the young and the elderly that need your help and prayers. What has happened to good old fashion humanity amongst brothers and sisters – regardless of color, religion, or race. People are people whatever and whoever they are. Accept the things you cannot change – THE COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS YOU CAN – And the wisdom to know the difference. Reach out a hand and help, tomorrow you could be in the same spot and looking for the same hand of respite. God Bless You All in Your Endeavours. But For The Grace Of God Go I.

  • Raymond Dale — How thoughtful of you to enlighten us with the word of God — and to provide us with the URL to your (or is it God’s) website — where all the answers are provided for us.

    So… how do you respond to the points made by previous posters? Specifically, how do you respond to the likelihood that virtually all of the homosexuals and abortion clinic workers of New Orleans were likely able to escape while thousands of poverty-stricken blacks who could not afford to evacuate were left behind? What do you think about the fact that the French Quarter, which is loaded with bars including the great majority of the city’s gay bars, suffered the least damage of almost any part of the city? How do you explain the fact that the storm veered to the East of New Orleans and destroyed numerous towns in Missisippi and Alabama — both heavily conservative states? Is God just a really sloppy shot? Will he kill whoever can’t run fast enough just to make a point — even if his victims aren’t quite the ones who supposedly triggered his ire? Does He just say “Well gosh, I’m sure they were guilty of something?” Or does God assume that all who inhabit a nation that tolerates abortion and homosexuality are guilty and worthy of extermination? I guess that would include you too then, huh?

    By the way, why hasn’t God sent a hurricane, or an earthquake, or a volcano to destroy Las Vegas? Are the particular types of sin practiced there not quite so bad in His eyes, or is it a matter of geographical inconvenience He hasn’t quite figured out a way to overcome?

    Is the God you want us to believe in REALLY that sloppy, inept, illogical, vindictive and childish? Forgive me if expect more of God than that.

  • It is because I prayed for this filthy sodomite festival to be canceled. Good news I also asked the Lord to let this storm die and it just got downgraded to Cat 3. This evil nation needs to repent and in no way do I want New Orleans hit again. One katrina per lifetime is my motto. God may use this storm to take on the oil rigs and refineries to makes us all pay for America’s tolerance of homos(gay marriage) murder(abortion) ect. God will not be mocked America. You have sinned away your day of grace. I am out of the closet straight guy and proclaim I believe in Jesus Christ. Why can’t you Christian phobes accept me for the way I am? Don’t be a Christianphobe, be a Godphobe. Fear God with fear and trembling.

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