Israeli earthquakes are gays' fault, says MP

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Israeli earthquakes are gays' fault, says MP

By Tom Chivers and agencies
Last Updated: 2:49pm GMT 21/02/2008

An Israeli MP has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle
East on gays.

Israeli MP blames earthquakes on gays
The annual Tel Aviv gay and lesbian pride march: blamed for causing
earthquakes

Six earthquakes have struck Israel and neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan
in recent months, with two coming last week alone. Shlomo Benizri, of
the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, suggested that the tremors could
be stopped through the simple expedient of repealing various
liberalising laws on homosexuality that have been passed by the
Israeli parliament, or Knesset, in recent years.

Since decriminalising homosexuality in 1988, Israel has passed several
laws on the subject , including decisions to recognise same-sex
marriages carried out abroad, and granting inheritance rights and
other benefits held by married couples to gay partnerships. Last
Sunday, to the outrage of the religious Right, the country's attorney
general, Meni Mazuz, ruled that same-sex couples should be allowed to
adopt children.

In what Mr Benizri clearly believes is no coincidence, the first of
last week's quakes hit the country just two days later.

"Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which
the Knesset gives legitimacy, to sodomy," Benizri said during a
parliamentary debate on earthquake preparedness.

Stopping "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity
in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes," would
represent a cost-effective method of preventing future earthquakes, he
continued.

"We are looking for earthly solutions, how to prevent them," he said.
"I have another way to prevent earthquakes. The Gemara says that one
of the reasons earthquakes happen - which the Knesset (parliament)
legitimises - is homosexuality.

"God says you shake your genitals where you are not supposed to and I
will shake my world in order to wake you up," he added.

How About That?

The Shas party has caused outrage in Israeli society before. In 1985,
a collision between a train and a bus that killed 22 people, most of
them children, was blamed by Shas on slipping standards of Jewish
observance in the country.

Mr Benizri also has previous experience in this area. In 1999 he
caused controversy by saying homosexuals are mentally ill.

Quoted in the Israeli newspaper Maariv, he said he was "ready to fund
the creation of special closed sections for them in psychiatric
hospitals."

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:10 -0800 (PST), Forest Gimp
wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...1/wgays121.xml

Israeli earthquakes are gays' fault, says MP

By Tom Chivers and agencies
Last Updated: 2:49pm GMT 21/02/2008

An Israeli MP has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle
East on gays.

Clearly, the earth moved for someone at least.........

Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen

On the particular moment of Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:10:23 +0100 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Keith
Anderson put forth:

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:10 -0800 (PST), Forest Gimp
wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...1/wgays121.xml

Israeli earthquakes are gays' fault, says MP

By Tom Chivers and agencies
Last Updated: 2:49pm GMT 21/02/2008

An Israeli MP has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle
East on gays.

Clearly, the earth moved for someone at least.........

Put something foreign in my freckle, and it would do the same.
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Keep in mind that a Muslim clergyman in Berlin claimed that eating pork can
cause homosexuality. I wonder if MP Benizri is claiming the same...

On 22 Feb, 11:24, "Turan Fettahoglu" wrote:
Keep in mind that a Muslim clergyman in Berlin claimed that eating pork can
cause homosexuality. I wonder if MP Benizri is claiming the same...

who would have thought these 2 had so much in common ?!