I recently saw Donald Wildmon, head of the anti-gay American Family Association, being interviewed in a film. The film was several years old and Wildmon was predicting that God would punish Massachusetts for legalizing (and legitimizing) same-sex marriage.
Well, it has not happened--not yet, anyway. The Netherlands was the first country to marry same-sex couples, in 2001. By now there have been six other countries and three U.S. states, with same-sex marriage set to start in three more states. I haven't noticed any divinely-ordained catastrophes striking any of these states or countries.
If God wanted to punish the Netherlands, it ought to be pretty easy for Him to cook up a big storm that would cause the sea to breach the Netherlands' extensive system of dikes that keep the water out of many hundreds of square miles of below-sea-level land. Doubtless, if pressed, Rev. Wildmon could explain What God Is Waiting For. Guess that when you become a rev., there's some piece of paper you get that certifies, "Knows What God Is Thinking."
If Wildmon, and people of his ilk, believe what they say, when they say things like that, then they are big fools. I am not sure, though, that they do believe what they are themselves saying. If that's the case, then they are mendacious liars and downright evil, trying to manipulate their followers for their own advancement. (And how many of these preachers have made themselves rich? How many anti-gay preachers and politicians have been arrested in public washroooms or in some other way been shown to be big hypocrites? If you follow the news, I don't need to start enumerating them.)
For more on Wildmon, see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Wildmon
Copyright © 2009 by Richard Stein
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I haven't witnessed God punish Massachusetts lately but sure saw that wonderful Barney Frank give a lippy bag what for at a town hall meeting in Massachusetts. I liked it when Rep. Frank said that trying to talk to the woman was like trying to communicate with a table. None of us should be expected to be respectful or give the time of day to any American kooky battleaxe or obnoxious and disruptive rw leaning crackpot (including clergy) in our society.
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