On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:55:49 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> people willing to blame every natural disaster on God's punishment of
> what ever group they hate this week,

The funniest one of this category was a tornado that hit locally here.  
We had a guy (yes, past tense) who did work on our fireplace for us (an 
honest-to-$DEITY chimney sweep, actually).  He came by to do some work 
and got into a discussion with my wife about the reason for the tornado.  
He's a self-proclaimed "born-again" Christian (hands up all those who 
thought I was going to say he was a Mormon - surprise! <g>).

The tornado hit downtown Salt Lake City - it wasn't a huge one, but it 
dropped down *near* a gay bar.  His bias clearly showed when he said "God 
was punishing the gays."

My wife's response was very straightforward.  "My brother's gay.  Your 
God missed if he was trying to punish the gays.  This is the last job you 
will do for us - you're fired."

Ironically, if it was God's "punishment" for something, while missing the 
gay bar, he did actually drive it right through a construction site for 
the new (at the time) LDS general conference center - knocking down a 
couple of cranes in the process, one of which was actually occupied by a 
worker at the time (the worker survived).

The only death was an out-of-towner who was setting up for the annual 
outdoor retailer's conference.

Jim

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