Thursday, June 30, 2011
Katrina blah blah God's punishment blah blah Southern Decadence blah blah. Still.
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:10 PM
We're nearly six years past Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods, but it seems we'll never be over the bizarre notion that "God sent" a hurricane to make landfall on the Mississippi coast in order to register His displeasure with Southern Decadence in the French Quarter, about 60 miles away.
The latest opportunist to remount this hobbyhorse is — surprise — a televangelist named Rick Joyner, who seems to have picked up Jim and Tammy Bakker's Heritage USA hotel for a steal and turned it into a conference center. In a sermon this week, the preacher (and Kenny Rogers doppelganger) claimed a U.S. Senator had phoned him specifically to ask if Katrina was "judgment from God." Of course it was:
A very gracious judgment — filled with grace! Katrina hit New Or-lee-anz the day before they were supposed to have that day of decadence.
That "day of decadence" went on anyway, with two parades staged by both gays and straights.
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It'd be nice if you didn't give people like this guy any more publicity than they've already received. Reporting this only helps his cause.
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I was a tourist who was stuck in the dank Superdome during Katrina and the levee failures. Sorry Rick but you got your dates wrong. Decadence wasn't scheduled for the next day. Katrina hit on Monday 8/29. Not only that but it was the failed Army Corps of Engineers levees that failed to stand up to a Category 3 storm that caused most of the death and destruction in the City. And the areas least devastated tended to be the most secular and gayest. I'm guessing Jesus would have wanted you to be held accountable for your misstatements, AKA lies, Rick!
Paul Harris
Author, "Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina"
Why anyone would take what he says with even the slightest idea of truth....shows how gullible and laughable some people are in this world. Saying Katrina was a "message" is an easy, lazy thing to attract attention. It sounds "cool" to the right-wing, religious freaks that pick and choose which evils they will cry about and which evils they will pretend don't exist.
I take a bit of pleasure in the fact that having known many of these people, they almost all admit to their sides laughable and outragous hypocrisy in just about all phases of their public statements
