Anti-abortion Pastor Blames Wildfires on "Homosexual" Law
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Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 08:16:01 PM EST
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In a move worthy of Jerry Falwell who blamed 9/11 on "the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians", crazed anti-abortion pastor Matt Trewhella of Missionaries to the Preborn sent the following E-Mail out today to his flock:



Subject: The Righteous Judgment of God

Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:00:18 +0000

Dear Friends,

Last week I groaned when I read how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law in California which foisted homosexuality upon the children of that state through the state school system. The bill was SB777 and it clearly redefines (perverts) what sexuality is, as well as promotes the legitmacy of homosexuality upon children starting from kindergarten on up. He signed the bill on Saturday, October 13th.

Seven days later on October 20th, wildfires broke out across California in  several places.

More of this crap below the fold.

The smoke can know be seen from satellite! The headline for MsNBC web site now read s 'WE CAN'T STOP IT.' Firefighters concede defeat as 1 Million flee Calif. blazes. Evacuees jam streets. The story then goes on to talk about 600 square miles up in flames and over 1300 buildings burnt to the ground. President Bush has declared a national emergency.

Do you think they will see it as a warning from the Lord for their calling evil good? Do you think they will be able to connect the dots? I won't be holding my breath.

Pastor Matt Trewhella

These are the same kooks that harass women going into abortion clinics and will say anything to justify their righteous indignation.

Matt Trewhella is known by law enforcement, and was investigated by the FBI in the mid 90's during the murders of abortion doctors and clinic workers.

This Milwaukee "Pastor" who is father to 9 children believes that the Columbine massacre would never have happened if the "holy" were fully armed:

Pastor Matt Trewhella, co-founder of the extremist anti-abortion group Missionaries to the Preborn, believes the righteous and the holy have a duty to be fully armed. Not long after the Columbine High School massacre, members of his Mercy Seat Christian Church distributed a Gospel tract entitled "Kids Killing Kids: How Can We Stop the Bloodshed?" at local schools.

His latest hate speech today about God's retribution causing the California wildfires is beyond despicable.  Last time I checked, my God was a loving God, not a vengeful one.




Display:
James Hartline is a spokesman for the "ex-gay" movement, and he blames the wildfires on tolerance for gay citizens in San Diego. Glenn Beck blamed Southern Californians for hating America. I wonder what Trewhella, Hartline and Glenn Beck see when they look in the mirror. It surely isn't pretty.

by khughes1963 on Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 10:32:27 PM EST
They see nothing when they look in the mirror.
"Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men" ... Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1759), 18.
by AnnRose on Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 10:48:26 PM EST
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would God hit the most conservative part of a relatively liberal state? Does God not have access to good polling data? Or a map?

by nogodsnomasters on Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:10:09 AM EST

I read Hartline's diatribe on his website and I am upset.  Has God forgotten us here in NE?  Here I am sitting in southern NH right next to the sinful Massachusetts border where life goes on normally, no fires, no earthquakes, no hurricanes.  Does not God realize that Massachusetts, and to a lesser extent Vermont, are the source of gay marriage?  According to Hartline gay marriage was supposed to destroy the institution of marriage and yet NE has the lowest divorce rate in the country while the highest divorce rate exists in the Bible Belt. Also the fires in California are in the most conservative parts of the states.  I can see two possibilities here.  Either God is a lousy shot or he is trying to tell the right wing something.....

by hs2938 on Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 11:14:31 PM EST


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