New Orleans' 41st annual gay
mardi gras, Southern Decadence, is being blamed for Hurricane Isaac's
sudden change in trajectory.
Buster Wilson of the American Family
Association (AFA) discussed the festival on his Thursday radio
program.
“When the people don't live right,
God will come in, sometimes, not always, but sometimes and literally
destroy a place. I'm not saying that's exactly why the hurricane
comes to New Orleans this week, or why the weather had done its
damage there in the past but I am saying it does fit a pattern that
there is an abundance of in the Scripture,” said
Wilson.
Wilson isn't the first to suggest
hurricanes are God's punishment to New Orleans for hosting Southern
Decadence.
In 2008, Texas televangelist Rev. John
Hagee said of Katrina: “What happened in New Orleans looked like
the curse of God. It was a city that was planning sinful conduct.”
And last year, Rick Joyner, who heads
Morning Star Ministries and the Oak Initiative, said Katrina was a
“judgment from God.”
“Katrina hit New Orleans the day
before they were supposed to have that Day of Decadence. Katrina
that same storm hit Key West on the same day they were gonna have
their gay pride parade. There is a message here, that is something
the Lord is not gonna put up with. He loves homosexuals, they're not
gay, it's hard to find one who is happy, that's a misnomer,” he
said.
Hagee and Joyner neglected to mention
that Katrina spared New Orleans' French Quarter, site of Southern
Decadence.