Wingnut Watch: We are to blame for Noah's flood

Scott Lively, Wingnut

Evangelist Scott Lively, one of the most extreme Radical Right zealots short of the Westboro Baptist Church, this week claimed that Noah's Biblical flood was punishment from God for the "writing of wedding songs to homosexual marriage." As reported by the Huffington Post today, Lively said:

"We need to remember that in the time leading up to the Flood what the rabbis teach about the last straw for God before He brought the Flood was when they started writing wedding songs to homosexual marriage and Jesus said that you’ll know the End Times because it will be like the days of Noah."

Lively goes on to say the the End Is Near (wasn't that supposed to be the Mayans' job?) because never before has homosexuality so accepted:

I think this is the issue of the End Times, homosexuality. It’s present, if you do a careful investigation of all the scriptures dealing with this from the beginning and all the way to the end, God is painting a very clear picture that this represents the outer extent of rebellion against Him in a society and the last thing that happens before wrath comes.

Lively is same guy who has been promoting the "Kill the Gays" legislation in Uganda. His involvement in that cause led to a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts under the Alien Tort Statute accusing him of inciting hate crimes. In 1991 he was ordered to pay $31,000 to a woman whom he threw against a wall and dragged across the floor in a Portland, Oregon, church.

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