This is thoroughly saddening...
Why do the people with the most insecurities and misbeliefs feel like they have to do crap like this???

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Christian Group Blames Katrina on Gays, Exhibitionists
Sep 3, 2005 at 2:00 AM by Ross von Metzke

New Orleans, LA - An organization of Christian fundamentalists has stepped forward with claims the destruction brought on by Hurricane Katrina is God's judgment against New Orleans for holding festivals like the gay Southern Decadence party, which was scheduled for Labor Day weekend and has since been cancelled.
"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," said Repent America director Michael Marcavage on the organization's Web site. "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."
The comments from Repent America came just minutes after New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced that Katrina probably killed thousands of people in the 'Crescent City'.
"Let us pray for those ravaged by this disaster," Marcavage said. "However, we must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long."
According to the PlanetOut Network, Repent America's Web site noted New Orleans' past three mayors issued official proclamations welcoming visitors to Southern Decadence. The Web site also noted the "New Orleans City Council made other proclamations recognizing the annual homosexual celebration."
"May this act of God cause us all to think about what we tolerate in our city limits, and bring us trembling before the throne of Almighty God," Marcavage concluded, adding a biblical citation from Matthew 5:45: "[God] sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
The Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, executive director of the Metropolitan Community Churches, quoted back from the Bible: "Jeremiah 29 says, 'I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future.' We rest on these promises."
"I feel sad that anyone is taking advantage of the suffering of people when they are so vulnerable," Love told the PlanetOut Network. "So, I am praying for our brothers and sisters who are blaming gays and lesbians for this disastrous hurricane. I ask them to use their energy to pray for those afflicted and to take the resources being used to attack gays and lesbians and use them to provide relief."
Love added that the MCC was organizing a relief effort.
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I find it so amazing that these fundamentalist groups wish to blame such a natural event on "us". New Orleans has been the seat of many things, but I don't ever remember it receiving the nickname of the "City of Sin." Honestly, wasn't that dubbed to Las Vegas? And what is their excuse for as why Mississippi and Alabama received so much damage as well? They most certainly didn't do anything wrong of which we have been made aware. I never knew that promoting tolerance and acceptance was such a horrible thing. Hmph, guess I have been shown.

Wait, wasn't there something in the bible about "God loves all his children and we should learn to accept them?" If there isn't, then the "devouts" who spent so much time trying to convert me sure need a relearning. I grew up on the Old Testament...my people didn't accept JC for his betrayal of his people. But again, what do I know.

"He who is without sin, cast the first stone." I don't know anyone who can fit in this category...at all.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~Buddha

Song of the morning: Devil Inside by Utada Hiraku (click here for lyrics)  ¶ 9/07/2005 04:26:00 AM