UKIP councillor blames storms and floods on gay marriage

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ox ... e-25793358

UKIP councillor blames storms and floods on gay marriage

A UKIP councillor has blamed the recent storms and heavy floods across Britain on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage.

David Silvester said the Prime Minister had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel".

In a letter to his local paper he said he had warned David Cameron the legislation would result in "disaster".

UKIP said Mr Silvester's views were "not the party's belief" but defended his right to state his opinions.

Divine retribution

Mr Silvester, from Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, defected from the Tories in protest at David Cameron's support for same-sex unions.

In the letter to the Henley Standard he wrote: "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."

He added: "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."

He then went to on blame the Prime Minister for the bad weather:

"It is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods."

He went on to say that no man, however powerful "can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it".

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[Svartalf]

Funny, the place we had most floods and whatnot is also the area where opposition to legalizing gay marriage wass strongest, Paris is enjoying mild and nice weather.

[cronus]

I thought it was the 'bedroom tax' which caused the Southern floods here. Although G-ds weapon systems are the same as always, I like to think S(He) is socially progressive and got their eye on the pulse.

[Audley Strange]

It occurs to me that many of these guys who always blame bad weather as god's vengeance on gay marriage also were the same fuckwits who called AIDS a "gay plague" sent by God. They really pre-neolithic in their thinking still. I wonder if many of them serious consider sacrificing their families during an eclipse.

[mistermack]

So baby Jesus is no better than the dumb fuckers down here, who take out their own anger on the innocent.
Does he flood the gay newly-weds, or David Cameron? No, he floods people in low-lying properties.
It's almost like he doesn't give a fuck. Or doesn't exist.

[Svartalf]

It occurs to me that many of these guys who always blame bad weather as god's vengeance on gay marriage also were the same fuckwits who called AIDS a "gay plague" sent by God. They really are pre-neolithic in their "thinking" still. I wonder if many of them serious consider sacrificing their families during an eclipse.

[cronus]

I like to think of G-d, should the diety exist, to be the sort to not give a fuck. Appeals to my sense of agency that there is someone in charge of the universe a little bit like me.

[Hermit]

In the letter to the Henley Standard he wrote: "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."

...which, of course has nothing to do with justice.

[JimC]

The nasty ones just love the idea of their god being an evil, vindictive, egotistical arsehole...

[cronus]

Farage > God

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25802437

[DaveD]

https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-pegg/uk ... g-forecast

[PsychoSerenity]

https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-pegg/uk ... g-forecast

[Clinton Huxley]

I coveted my brother-in-law's new laptop and the next day it was quite cold. That's inarguable.

[Rum]

Grey cold and not summer here. Thor is in the ascendency it seems.

[Clinton Huxley]

Every bum-sex = 0.01mm of extra rain. That's maths.