Ethics

Gays Cause Earthquakes. Film at 11.

By Ed Brayton

In yet another example of theological lunacy, an Israeli Knesset member says that recent earthquakes in Israel are God's punishment for Israel's failure to oppress gays enough:

Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave "legitimacy to sodomy".

Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognising gay rights.

Two earthquakes shook the region last week and a further four struck in November and December.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).