Joseph Farah, the editor of the
Christian conservative site WND.com, has warned that gay marriage
might provoke God to retaliate with a great disaster that threatens
humankind.
In an op-ed, Farah theorized that the
Bible's Great Flood was divine punishment for society's tolerance of
gay unions.
“I think I might have been wrong
about same-sex marriage,” Farah wrote. “When I have written
about this phenomenon and discussed it and debated it in recent
years, I have stated unequivocally that it is something new – not
seen anywhere or at any time in the history of humankind.”
“But now I have reason to doubt that.
… [I]t may have been routine in the days of Noah, just before the
flood.”
“Jeffrey Satinover, who holds an MD
from Princeton and doctorates from Yale, MIT and Harvard, has made
the point that the Midrash Rabbah Genesis suggests such activity
represented the last straw before God unleashed the floodwaters to
destroy the Earth. He is backed up by Rabbi Aryeh Spero of New
York.”
“When I'm wrong, I admit it. And it
appears I was wrong when I stated repeatedly there is no historical
precedent for same-sex marriage. But the one I have found is not
exactly reassuring. The last time it happened, God destroyed the
world.”
Equality
Matters' Luke Brinker points out that Satinover “is far more
noted for his anti-gay activism than his biblical expertise.”