David Silvester, a member of the UK
Independence Party (Ukip), has blamed bad weather on the passage of a
gay marriage law in Britain.
Silvester wrote in a letter published
in the Henley Standard that he had warned Prime Minister David
Cameron of the consequences such a law would bring.
“The scriptures make it abundantly
clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts
contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath)
will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease,
pestilence and war.”
“I wrote to David Cameron in April
2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his
same sex marriage bill but he went ahead despite a 600,000-signature
petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own
parliamentary party saying that he should not do so.”
“It is his fault that large swathes
of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods.”
“He has arrogantly acted against the
Gospel that once made Britain 'great' and the lesson surely to be
learned is that no man or men, however powerful, can mess with the
Almighty God with impunity and get away with it for everything a
nation does is weighed on the scaled of divine approval or
disapproval,” Silvester
wrote.
A Ukip spokesperson stressed that the
party does not share Silvester's views but defended his right to
speak his mind.