No, Homosexuality Doesn't Cause Earthquakes

by Michael Jones · 2010-02-02 08:17:00 UTC
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Yehuda LevinGuess Pat Robertson can't have a lock on bizarre religious prophecy. Robertson blamed Haiti's earthquake on a deal the country made with the devil two centuries ago. But that's small potatoes compared to Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, who is blaming Haiti's earthquake on homosexuality.

In what can only be described as a mathematical equation from the damned, Rabbi Yehuda has put together a history where advances in gay rights have led to multiple disasters throughout history, from September 11 to Hurricane Katrina to the 2005 tsunami. No word on whether Rabbi Levin is blaming the Vietnam War, World War I, or the Chicago Cubs World Series drought on homosexuality, too.

"We have seen the underground earthquake, tsunami, Katrina, and now Haiti. All this is in sync with a 2,000 year old teaching in the Talmud that the practice of homosexuality is a spiritual cause of earthquakes," the Rabbi said. "Once a disaster is unleashed, innocents are also victims just like in Chernobyl."

Rabbi Levin then warns that if gay folks are allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, more disaster is likely to come America's way.

Gosh, between Pat Robertson, Rev. Fred Phelps, and now Rabbi Yehuda, 2010 is certainly shaping up to be a year of the religious crazy. Are they competing to see which one among them can out-do the next? Huh, anyone sensing a reality television premise here?

Photo credit: PittsburghStandard

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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