Israeli MP blames quakes on gays

[meegbear]

An Israeli MP has blamed parliament's tolerance of gays for earthquakes that have rocked the Holy Land recently.

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.

Mr Benizri made his comments while addressing a committee of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, about the country's readiness for earthquakes.

He called on lawmakers to stop "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes".

Israeli court rulings in recent years have granted inheritance rights to gay couples and recognised same-sex marriages performed abroad.

Last week, Israel's attorney general ruled same-sex couples could adopt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7255657.stm

[MethuenProgressive]

1. Gays make the earth move when they have sex?

Sounds like Benizri is jealous!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Is this prejudice-bigotry perhaps based on more than "biblical law"?

Such as the obvious biological fact that two men or two women are not designed to reproduce and very orthodox/religious Jews define the purpose of marriage as making as many children as possible. In other words, it isn't the "gay" part that troubles them as much as the growth of the Jewish community.

[mikelgb]

3. Well that means three things:

1. There have been gays since the formation of the planet
2. Gays (along with gawd o'course) helped shape the earth as we see it today.
3. Sorry for the tsunami... our bad

[rpannier]

4. What happened in 88 after they decriminalized it???

You'd think God would have jumped on that from the get-go.

I guess God missed that vote.

[DGoldman1212]

5. G-d was laying low...

That was back around the time of the big televangelist scandals, right?

[Beregond2]

6. Earthquake

Well, I know I personally caused the eruption of Mount Saint Helens with a blow-job I gave, so he may be onto something.

[qb]

7. If ass pounding causes earthquakes then why aren't there any in Minnesota?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. well in fairness i do have earth shattering sex.