Fundamentalist Christians Are Cute

While any natural disaster is devastating and incredibly heart-wrenching for anyone affected, there's one piece of comic relief one can always depend on during these hardships: the Religious Right's explanation for it.

When we last left our bat-shit, closet schizophrenics in the Religious Right, they were lying their Bible-clutching asses off about Pat Robertson's latest assassination suggestion. The most recent statement from this group, however, that solidifies the argument that they should all be hog-tied and launched into the Pacific Ocean like flying Purdue Chickens? Read the following, from Salon.com:

We reported last night on the cause of Hurricane Katrina -- at least in the eyes of an antiabortion group called Columbia Christians for Life. The storm, the group says, is God's way of punishing Louisiana for having 10 abortion clinics. (In an e-mail message Salon received, a group calling itself Columbia Christians for Life alerts them to the fact that a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it hit the Gulf Coast Monday looks just like a six-week-old fetus...see below).

Well, at least that's what the Columbia Christians for Life were saying yesterday. We've just received another e-mail from the group, and now it seems to be saying that God sent Katrina after Louisiana to prevent Southern Decadence, an annual gay-themed bash that was scheduled for Labor Day weekend in New Orleans.

The Columbia Christians for Life forwarded to us a press release from a Philadelphia-based outfit called Repent America. In it, Repent America director Michael Marcavage explains: "Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city. From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same."