What’s up with the homosexual tendencies of hurricanes?

Since the intentional misreading of the Sodom and Gomorrah story in Genesis 19 in the Bible where the twin cities were supposedly destroyed because of homosexual depravity, the causes of natural disasters always find ways to be placed on the backs of LGBTQ Americans. It has become an easy go-to explanation. And, usually by Bible-thumping religious conservatives, or, in Ann Coulter’s case, a worn out right-wing conservative pundit needing free publicity by any means necessary.

Unlike Colorado’s Pastor Kevin Swanson who stated emphatically Houston’s Hurricane Harvey is a clear sign of God’s wrath against a city that now embraces LGBTQ rights, Coulter’s comment was intentionally duplicitous.

“I don’t believe Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than” climate change,” Coulter tweeted.

Former Houston mayor, Annise Parker tweeted back:

“Darn it, I thought no one knew I had a super power over weather.”

Parker, was the first openly LGBTQ mayor of Houston from 2010 to 2016 and enthusiastically embraced by her citizens.

It continues to amaze me how in the 21st century the debate between “creationism vs evolution” or “God’s will vs climate change” continues when a simple scientific explanation about Houston’s topography – flat and built on marshes making flooding a recurring problem – is all that’s needed.

But the blame game damns a people already suffering and makes scapegoats out of others.

For example, while scientists explained Haiti’s 2010 natural disaster as an earthquake due to a fault between two large tectonic plates – the North American plate to the north and the Caribbean plate to the south – that slowly slide horizontally past each other, televangelist Pat Robertson explained the disaster as “Something [that] happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it.”

The “something” that happened a long time ago was…

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