Causing AIDS įurther information: AIDS § Stigma, and Gay-related immune deficiencyĪn outgrowth of the discourse on homosexuality causing disasters argues that HIV/AIDS is divine punishment for homosexuality.
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In 2012, Chilean politician Ignacio Urrutia claimed that allowing homosexuals to serve in the Chilean military would cause Perú and Bolivia to invade and destroy his country. He later apologized and said, "I would never blame any human being except the terrorists". On the broadcast of the Christian television program The 700 Club, Falwell said, "You helped this happen". įollowing the September 2001 attacks, televangelist Jerry Falwell blamed "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way" for provoking the aggression of Islamic fundamentalists and causing God to withdraw his protection for America. In 2020, various religious figures including Israeli rabbi Meir Mazuz have argued that the COVID-19 pandemic is divine retribution for same-sex activity or pride parades. Homosexuals have been blamed for hurricanes, including Isaac, Katrina, and Sandy. In the U.S., right-wing religious groups including the Westboro Baptist Church continue to claim that homosexuals are responsible for disasters. This discourse was revived by Anita Bryant in 1976 when she blamed homosexuals for droughts in California. This trope was common in early modern Christian literature homosexuals were blamed for earthquakes, floods, famines, plagues, invasions of Saracens, and field mice.
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The argument that homosexuals cause natural disasters has been around for more than a thousand years, even before Justinian blamed earthquakes on "unchecked homosexual behavior" in the sixth century.