(State) Senator says storms are punishment from God

[LizW]

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/112790008991370.xml&coll=2

"'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 judgement of God.'"

Read the article. It gets worse after that.

<cringe>

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. You gotta love the American system of government

Anybody can get elected.

If I thought God would literally punish me outright for my sins I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

[Spinzonner]

2. If so, G*d sure isn't very precise about the people he punishes

[rodeodance]

4. from the pulpit as Sen. speaks?

[Fenris]

3. What about the Texas Gulf/Sabine River/Lake Charles area?

What did they do to offend God? Vote for Democrats? Practising Catholicism? Produce oil for his cars?

[CBGLuthier]

5. It's funny how

they always know what god is pissed about.

Hey, maybe they were punishments from god. Maybe he does not care for our foreign policy.

Nahhhh, god hates sex and gambling more than he does the murder of thousands of innocents.

[LizW]

11. According to Senator Erwin's God, I better hope my neighbor

is not cheating on his wife or embezzling from his employer. I might get smashed by the collective punishment that comes down.

Oh, no! I just had a thought. My best friend lives across the street from a gay couple. Her house is probably toast soon.

:wow:

[opihimoimoi]

6. Its Gods way of HINTING the PUBs and BUSHCO are all fucked up

Uncaring and Inept....The Sheer Arrogance astounds.....

[BrainRants]

7. Kindly explain why churches weren't spared Senator.

Surely the God you worship would not be so careless as to punish his loyal servants, would he? And surely the poor were the object of your God's ire, because as we all know his son held the poor in such low regard.

The God I worship says we are ALL God's children.

Not some of us.

All of us.

INCLUDING the sinners.

You backwards-ass-hillbilly politician.

[smoogatz]

8. If it weren't for magical thinking

fundies would do no thinking at all.

[castiron]

14. LOL!!

fundamentalism: fundamentally anti-history

[jody]

9. God put * in the Oval Orifice to punish America for its sins. n/t

[aintitfunny]

10. God Was punishing them

and Alabama and parts of Florida as well. For voting for George W. Bush!

[jedr]

12. And gays , and flag burners and lazy people;

all part of the repub rewrite of history, what you saw on TV , didn't really happen, "Don't look behind that curtain. I'm the great and powerful Oz"

[Beaver Tail]

13. If anything is punishment from God

Its Senators like Rick Santorum

[MindPilot]

15. Once again a Christian makes me proud

to be an Atheist.

[castiron]

16. My fundie friend thinks it has something to do with N.O. catholicism,

and my catholic N.O. friend thinks it has to do with murder and crime in N.O. hahahahahhaha!

[Beaver Tail]

17. hmmmmm

I thought hurricanes develop from belts of low pressure over warm ocean waters off the cost of Africa can carried by winds across the Atlantic. Looks like I was wrong. :sarcasm:

Edited for typo

[TlalocW]

18. As Jon Stewart pointed out

Since the French Quarter was essentially spared, but all surrounding areas were badly damaged, God doesn't hate the gays but the gay-adjacent.

TlalocW

[quaoar]

19. Looks like the Alabama GOP stands behind Erwin

This is from the Mobile Register:

"Alabama Republican Party chairman Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh refused to repudiate Sen. Erwin's mean-spirited column, instead insisting that he 'is a great senator and been a real leader.' "

Can you believe that there is actually a woman named Twinkle?

[Syrinx]

20. Check out today's letters to the editor in the B'ham news

State Sen. Hank Erwin's recent comments about God's wrath striking the Gulf Coast have taught me a valuable lesson.

Being what I consider a conservative Republican, I have in the past gone into the voting booth and pulled a straight-party lever without much thought given to some of the candidates who happened to be running as Republicans. I fully believe I have some responsibility for inflicting Erwin on the people of Alabama, thereby giving Alabama another black eye.

Please forgive me. I will do better in the future.

Charles E. McNeillie

Columbiana

http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/112826751756110.xml&coll=2

And if anyone wants to hit my GD thread, it appears to be dying, but I think it's fairly important as being indicitive of the winds that are blowing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4955320