UKIP councillor David Silvester has decided that all the
flooding around the UK this year has been caused by… marriage equality. Yes, us
gay folk be causing natural disasters again. (UKIP again comes forth with the
excuse that though they don’t support equality and their elected members are
rabid bigots who they happily embrace that totally doesn’t mean the party is
homophobic, honest)
We’ve heard it before haven’t we? Earthquakes – gay
people did that. Floods? Gay folks. Hurricane? Yep, that’s the gay people.
Fukushima, Katrina, the Boxing Day Tsunami, the death of bees and birds and
endangered species and serial killers and gun massacres – gays gay gays, gays
have done all of that! We’re the ultimate scourge of humanity - like the 7
plagues, all the signs of the apocalypse and the Kardashians’ continued career
all in one.
And no, even though we make a joke about it, it’s not harmless – this kind of demonization does dehumanise and does encourage persecution. It is the extreme end of a constant meme –we’re sinners, we’re wicked, we’re evil and we have to be stopped. It also shows a lot about our media and culture that hate speech this extreme is not really considered all that outrageous.
But I’ve said all that before and likely will again.
Today I’ve been thinking about just what this says about the god David
Silvester and his ilk worship and praise. Because this is a god who,
apparently, has looked at history – looked at slavery, torture, murder,
massacres, genocide, abuse, cruelty and all kinds of evil that lurk there – and
decided to not do a damn thing.
But the minute gay people’s rights are recognise then
your god is shifting his arse off that cloud and getting in some smiting?
Really? This is his priorities? Because I kind of think if gay marriage is
worth some bad flooding then the slave trade had to be worth wiping out a
substantial portion of the map.
This is something I just cannot understand with these
bigoted Christians. Why would anyone worship their god? Even if you believed in
this capricious, cruel, sadistic monster, why would you ever worship it? Why would
you support something so patently evil?
I cannot understand loving such a being, supporting such a being and praising such a being. In fact, I'm deeply disturbed that someone would believe in a deity so lacking in priorities and so capable of evil - and then praise it.
