Pastor who blamed gays for Hurricane Katrina is promoted to Bishop

[Rick336]

This tops the list of the absurd. To promote a man who believes a group of people are to be blamed for a disaster is stone age mentality. This proves that the Vatican is completely out of touch with reality and has become useless in a rational world.

http://www.365gay.com/news/vatican-promotes-priest-who-blamed-katrina-on-gays/

Rick

[Zerbie]

This tops the list of the absurd. To promote a man who believes a group of people are to be blamed for a disaster is stone age mentality. This proves that the Vatican is completely out of touch with reality and has become useless in a rational world.

http://www.365gay.com/news/vatican-promotes-priest-who-blamed-katrina-on-gays/

Rick

It seems to be in good keeping with western church history. There is a centuries' old tradition of this sort of thing. It leads to purging and pogroms and all that sort.

It just amazes me that this was EVER a part of human history. Why, why, why????

[Rick336]

It seems to be in good keeping with western church history. There is a centuries' old tradition of this sort of thing. It leads to purging and pogroms and all that sort.

It just amazes me that this was EVER a part of human history. Why, why, why????

Why do gays always get blamed for the bad weather? It would be nice to occasionally get credit for sunshine and blue skies.

But noooooooo..........it's always the floods and the droughts and the hurricanes. Just once I'd like to hear somebody say, "It's a perfectly beautiful day outside. I bet the sodomites did this."

Rick

[christa08]

It is a perfectly beautiful day outside here in Denver :) I bet Rick did this.

[sjbouza]

Why do gays always get blamed for the bad weather? It would be nice to occasionally get credit for sunshine and blue skies.

But noooooooo..........it's always the floods and the droughts and the hurricanes. Just once I'd like to hear somebody say, "It's a perfectly beautiful day outside. I bet the sodomites did this."

Rick

What I find interesting is that whenever a natural disaster occurs it is usually in the "religious" part of the towns. Katrina completely missed the "gay" part of town. Where is Tornado Alley? Yep, right in the middle of the "Bible Belt". Seems interesting to me that since the gays are to blame wouldn't God be hitting the places that deal with His "displeasure". I mean according to the Bible thumpers Soddam and Gahmorra were destroyed because of homosexuality. So is God just missing his "targets"?

Greensburg, KS (http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/may4-2007greensburg-kansas-damage1.html) was completely destroyed by a Tornado. Touted as an "extremely religious" community, a tornado ripped through the community and COMPLETELY destroyed it. It wasn't just a few houses or a select part of the town, it was the entire town that was destroyed. So I must ask, why is God destroying mostly "religious communities"? Could it be maybe that He isn't to pleased with how they are treating His children?

Just some food for thought.

Peace,
Scott

[originalgrissel]

"It's a perfectly beautiful day outside. I bet the sodomites did this."

Rick

Some generous soul needs to print up a bunch of bumper stickers with this phrase on them and distribute them freely to all the cars in this "gay-blamers" church parking lot.

[BruceChris]

Pastor who blamed gays for Hurricane Katrina is promoted to Bishop

This tops the list of the absurd. To promote a man who believes a group of people are to be blamed for a disaster is stone age mentality. This proves that the Vatican is completely out of touch with reality and has become useless in a rational world.

Or, "The hypocrisy of a church is directly proportional to the sum of how conservative it is, added to the size of it's hierarchy".

Zerbie, from your description, your church just may come out on the winning side of this equation.

(Surrounded by recovering Catholics) Bruce Chris

[Daniel]

Since the vatican said said that acting on same sex attaction was evil, I am not surprised in the slightest. After all, this was the same church that recently reinstated a Bishop that denied the holocaust as well as a number of excommunicated Bishops who were on the fringe.

It seems the church is closing ranks. And has decided that there is more to be gained- or so it thinks- by attending to it's own doll house politics.

Addendum:

Guess what? I was wrong. Or at least I was right until this morning: the Big C church is telling it's newly un-excommunicated holocaust denier Bishop that he has to recant.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/world/europe/05pope.html?hp

Because of global outrage.

Gay people died in the camps. But I'm not counting on this being remembered.