Rick Perry's Florida Co-Chair: Gays Cause Tornadoes

Earlier this week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his leadership team for the "Presidency 5" straw poll in Florida, scheduled for October. Although most of the other major candidates have decided to skip the event, Perry is hoping a strong showing there will give him a boost ahead of the state's important early primary. So what's his strategy for voter outreach? It looks a lot like The Response, the prayer and fasting festival he organized in August at a football stadium in Houston.

Take, for instance, his new co-chair: Pam Olsen, founder of the Tallahassee House of Prayer (dubbed the "prayer lady" in her home state for reasons that should be self-evident) and a leading anti-abortion activist in the state. As Right Wing Watch notes, though, Olsen also believes that gay marriage, and its increasing acceptance among American Christians, is causing destructive natural disasters across the country. Here's what she said back in July:

God is shaking. If anybody looks at the news and has just seen what's been happening recently with the floods, the fires, the tornadoes, God is shaking. Yeah I think you have God shaking, sure you have the Enemy shaking, you have both and I don't want to say oh that's the judgment of God or that's the Enemy. But the reality is God is judging us, and I think it's going to get worse.

It's somewhat unclear why Texas, whose governor supports criminalizing gay sex, would be punished with raging wildfires for having too high a tolerance for gay rights. But Olsen's view is wholly consistent with Perry's other allies on the religious right. The Response, you'll recall, featured a number of controversial pastors who believed that, among other things, 9/11 was God's way of punishing America for tolerating homosexuality and the blackbirds that died suddenly in Arkansas last winter were a harbinger of the End Times.

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**who knew us gays were so strong :rofl:

:sarcasm:

That will Him happy.

:crazy:

and running the Perry asylum!

And could we get that tornado thingie on a tee shirt ?

After xxx-whamming Pam Olsen, God will want one to wipe off his xxxx xxxxx.

...deny the existence of climate change, and create an alternative hypothesis for the evidence that blames the gays.

Oswego "Double your stupid" Atheist

I went to the little fair here in conservative land, and hit up people with a little political talk. Every single Repub tried to impress on me how Romney was the best choice, because of his business experience.

Perry is making splashes, but I think Romney or perhaps Huntsman would appeal to more Americans. On the other hand conditions are getting worse for millions more people, something that has continued throughout the past 3 years, and we waver on the edge of adding to those numbers by the tens of millions. That scares people, and scared people are unpredictable.

Would he want to be called President Perry or the Reverend President Perry?

After Orlando, Florida, city officials voted in 1998 to fly rainbow flags from city lampposts during the annual Gay Days event at Disney World, Robertson issued the city a warning: "I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. ... condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs, it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."