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Wednesday the 28th of September, 2005

Just a matter of time…

I knew it would be just a matter of time before some right wing conservative idiot decided to make his voice heard in concerns to the recent hurricane disasters.  This time, it’s another one of our own here in Alabama.  Would you have expected any less from Alabama?  I mean really…

Contact and let him know just how ignorant he really is to think that God caused these two tragic hurricanes because of the “gambling, sin and wickedness” of the Gulf Coast.  His comments remind of those of other right wing idiots after the tragedy of 9/11 referring to those events being caused because of the rampant homosexuals and the fact that our “lifestyles” are being accepted by greater and greater numbers of people worldwide.  I quote “lifestyles” simply because I don’t live a “lifestyle”, I live a life and that life happens to be a gay life.

Comments are certainly more than welcome (from both sides) although I imagine the greater number of my readers will agree that these comments are uncalled for and certainly reveal the ignorance of yet another leader of what should be this great State of Alabama.

Senator says storms are punishment from God
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
THOMAS SPENCER
News staff writer

Hurricane Katrina and other storms that battered the Gulf Coast were God’s judgment of sin, according to state Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo.

“New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness,” Erwin wrote this week in a column he distributes to news outlets. “It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God.”

After touring Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., and Bayou La Batre, Erwin said he was awed and humbled by the power of the storm. But he wasn’t surprised.

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Posted by rtkenmore at 04:20 PM on the 28th of September, 2005.
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