[pnh102]

Just to refresh: it was televangelist Pat Robertson who predicted “earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly even a meteor” would hit Orlando for inviting gays to Disney World, and Rev. John Hagee who blamed Hurricane Katrina on a vengeful God angered over a gay pride parade in New Orleans.

If these things are true (it is the Al Qaeda Times, after all) then it illustrates that people who believe that homosexuality is wrong need to take a different approach. For thousands of years, people have predicted all sorts of calamities if God's will is ignored, and most, if not all, of those predictions turned out to be false. All they did was simply take away credibility from religion.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

One can't help but note that N'awlins was destroyed by a hurricane. exactly at the time the city was to host a huge, in-your-face gay pride march.....

[Strategerist]

I noticed the “God’s punishment!” folks were noticeably absent on the Boy Scout Camp getting hit by a tornado thread.

[megatherium]

I remember reading a book, The End of the World: A History. The author described those eras when people thought the end of the world was at hand, such as the end of the Roman Empire or the Black Death of the 14th century. One of the chapters dealt with the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon. This was a terrible event with catastrophic loss of life. Lisbon was a devout Roman Catholic city, and no one could discern why Lisbon deserved such cruel punishment. As a result, European intellectuals abandoned the notion that God uses natural disasters to punish cities or nations.

[flying_bullet]

If you'd like a real-world example of how God deals with societies that tolerate and glorify sin, read Romans 1:18 through the rest of the chapter.

It's a cause and effect situation. Verses 18-23 is the cause, 24 and following is the effect. God "gave them over". Homosexuality is a result of the type of sin in verses 18-23. It's a type of judgment in and of itself.

God's judgment is two-fold: here and now, and in chapter 2, the hereafter.