Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Hurricane sent to punish gays?
It doesn’t really get any better for the DUP. In remarks made to the Ballymena Guardian, DUP councillor Maurice Mills excoriated the media for not calling attention to the fact the hurricane struck just two days prior to a gay festival (which has been going for some 35 years) called the Southern Decadence Festival. The councillor asked “surely this is a warning to nations where such wickedness is increasingly promoted and practised”. He goes on to (highly inaccurately) put the blame for the spread of Aids in Africa on homosexual sex practices. Not sure what to add to that except perhaps to repeat the words of Alisdair McDonnell:
“I sometimes think that it is one of the great ironies of Northern Ireland that the phrase “Respect for Diversity” probably appears in print here more often than in any other part of the world. But where else in the world is the concept of diversity and so well understood but less practised?”
Thanks to Andrew Muir for the heads up.
Mick Fealty @ 10:03 PM
The only human behaviour involved regarding Katrina is Global Warming. Religion is outdated imho.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 07:39 AMBrian Brou
The only human behaviour involved regarding Katrina is Global Warming.
There is about as much evidence for your claim as there is for the DUPs
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 07:53 AMso by this reasoning, a hurricane should be shortly headed to Tandragee to sort out that Paul Berry one….
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 07:59 AMThe conclusion one has to draw from Mills’s suggestion that the hurricane was “a warning to nations where such wickedness is increasingly promoted and practised”, is pretty bonkers…
Namely, that God (allegedly a perfect, omniscient being) has nothing better to do with ‘His’ time than mainpulate weather systems to punish fun-loving homosexuals.
I was under the impression that this was a God of ‘love’ and compassion…but I guess such thoughts are a bit too “New Testament” for the likes of Mr. Mills.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 08:23 AMGiven that Ballymena is the drugs capital of Northern Ireland what can they expect earthquake, volcano or is it punishment enough to have the rants of the DUP loony right.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 08:44 AMIf this guy was your councillor, wouldn’t you be very scared,i know i would? Although he is but the latest in a line of Eminems- Maurice Mills- to spout of about gays, probably artistic license, or maybe he feels the need to compensate for being named Maurice.
Btw anyone heard anything from the radical cleric, who said the Tsunami was sent to wipe out western depravity on thai beaches, about the devastating earthquake in Pakistan, the land of the pure?Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 09:06 AMI can only imagine the fate that awaits San Francisco! And what were those people i Kasmir up to?
The is ludicrous nonsense not worthy of further comment and only serves to show how out of touch with reality some people are.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 09:26 AMUtter rubbish, which is undeserving of respect, but apparently not undeserving of votes!
Holding such views would crucially compromise my ability to vote such people into office and I find it difficult to understand how some presumably otherwise sensible people can disregard such gaga beliefs when casting their vote…
However, we may expect some posters to urge us to “read our Bibles”, which at best is a poor substitute for argument and a distraction from productive blogging time!
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 09:33 AMVery hard not to play the man on this one ...
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 09:52 AMMaurice’s middle name is Turtle. How many jokes can we get out of that?
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 10:20 AMSure remember Paisleys pathetic jibe at Brian Cowen T.D. He slagged off his lips. The DUP are pathetic.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 01:09 PMWhat have gays done to deserve Maurice Mills? Must be bad!
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 01:32 PMSounds like Mills would be right at home attending Westboro Baptist Church.
Don’t know about them? Look at http://www.godhatesfags.com
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 02:19 PMYou can hardly accuse those boys of being subtle or evasive…
The URL http://www.godhatesfags.com leaves little to the imagination.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 02:48 PMConor
Thank you for your worthwhile, on-topic, ball-playing contribution.
As for Mr Mills, all I can say is that he’s doing a pretty good job of hanging himself, rope or not. Isn’t suicide a Biblical sin too?
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 02:52 PM-
God supports the smoking ban in Northern Ireland. You heard it here first folks!
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 02:54 PM There’s no proof that God exists anyway. Even if he does, is he worthy of worship if he treats innocent human beings in the way indicated by Katrina, the tsunami, and the Jews in Nazi Germany?
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 04:05 PMBB, I think the term is theodicy, which is the study of how a good God allows bad things to happen to His children. It does bother me, but most of our problems are of our own doing. Even Katrina. We chose to build a city below sea level with crappy dikes.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 04:12 PMHave you all never heard of Darwin? His theories throw the whole ‘God’ thing straight out the window. Get real folks.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 04:22 PMDarwin??? Was that one of Noahs sons?? :)
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 04:25 PMwow the GHF site is utterly insane.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 04:27 PM“ch in Texas: We chose to build a city below sea level with crappy dikes”
Ah come on now…
It’s a bit rich to be having a go at ‘dikes’ in a thread like this!;)
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 04:41 PMConor
‘Have you all never heard of Darwin? His theories throw the whole ‘God’ thing straight out the window. Get real folks.’
Perhaps you’d care to elaborate. I’m no Christian, but I’m calling bullshit on that.
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 05:22 PMfustar, At least i didn’t say we tried to stop the flooding by putting fingers in dikes! We’ll leave that to the Dutch….....
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 05:34 PMWell I’m very dissapointed that nobody has yet seen fit to come on here and validate the ‘truth’ of Mr Mills phrophetic statement .
Posted by on Nov 17, 2005 @ 05:42 PM
