This Needs to be in the Blog!

I shouldn't SPAM people with my opinion. This reminds me of an old Irma Thomas song: "If you want it come and get it." Here is Text from my e-mail that caused the uproar:

First the Piece that set me off:
HURRICANE KATRINA DESTROYS NEW ORLEANSDAYS BEFORE "SOUTHERN DECADENCE" 8/31/05
PHILADELPHIA - Just days before "Southern Decadence", an annual homosexual celebration attracting tens of thousands of people to the French Quarters section of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina destroys the city. "Southern Decadence" has a history of filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars. Last year, a local pastor sent video footage of sex acts being performed in front of police to the mayor, city council, and the media. City officials simply ignored the footage and continued to welcome and praise the weeklong celebration as being an "exciting event". However, Hurricane Katrina has put an end to the annual celebration of sin. On the official "Southern Decadence" website (www.SouthernDecadence.com), it states that the annual event brought in "125,000 revelers" to New Orleans last year, increasing by thousands each year, and up from "over 50,000 revelers" in 1997. This year’s 34th annual "Southern Decadence" was set for Wednesday, August 31, 2005 through Monday, September 5, 2005, but due to massive flooding and the damage left by the hurricane, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has ordered everyone to evacuate the city. The past three mayors of New Orleans, including Sidney Barthelomew, Marc H. Morial, and C. Ray Nagin, issued official proclamations welcoming visitors to "Southern Decadence". Additionally, New Orleans City Council made other proclamations recognizing the annual homosexual celebration. "Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. "From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. From the devastation may a city full of righteousness emerge," he continued. New Orleans was also known for its Mardi Gras parties where thousands of drunken men would revel in the streets to exchange plastic jewelry for drunken women to expose their breasts and to engage in other sex acts. This annual event sparked the creation of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series. Furthermore, Louisiana had a total of ten abortion clinics with half of them operating in New Orleans, where countless numbers of children were murdered at the hands of abortionists. Additionally, New Orleans has always been known as one of the "Murder Capitals of the World" with a rate ten times the national average. "We must help and pray for those ravaged by this disaster, but let us not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long," Marcavage said. "May this act of God cause us all to think about what we tolerate in our city limits, and bring us trembling before the throne of Almighty God," Marcavage concluded. "[God] sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:45)

My Reply:

Let us look at the logic:

If GOD was angry at the decadence of the French Quarter, why did it survive
relatively intact? While I can't speak for the fate of the drunken homosexual or Girls Gone Wild (probably weren't there as it wasn't Spring Break or Mardi Gras), why did GOD flood churches in low-lying neighborhoods, which were also disproportionately poor. Was not Jesus a champion of the Poor???

It is certainly understandable that the sinful casinos of Biloxi were destroyed. But why were little GOD-fearing hamlets, including their Churches, flattened in Mississippi as far as 100 miles inland? Why was Senator Trent Lott's house destroyed? While I can't speak for his faith, was he not the conservative Southern Senator who compared homosexuals to kleptomaniacs, drug addicts and alcoholics in 1998? Are not Mississippi and Alabama in the heart of the Bible Belt? And by the way, my thoughts and prayers go out to Senator Lott and every one else who lost their home there; rich or poor!

I don't know why this happened, but it is difficult for me to believe such wrath could belong to a man! More likely it was a Woman - Mother Nature. She had every reason to be pissed! We have warmed her waters with Global Warming and raised their levels, thus making these storms more intense and frequent. We have destroyed the wetlands and turned a place nicknamed the Sportsman's Paradise into an Industrial Sewer. I suspect that GOD feels badly for all the suffering and is there, as always, to comfort us and guide us out of this mess.