I was headed toward New Orleans this weekend to attend Southern Decadence — purely for journalistic reasons — but my plans got curtained because of the mandatory evacuation of the city due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Gustav.Â
But I received the following e-mail Saturday which sets me on edge a bit. It reads, in total: “RE: Southern Decadence. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that he will reap, Mr. Jones.”Â
So I guess this guy’s saying Gustav was some kind of gay retribution? I don’t know for sure because the coward didn’t have the balls to sign his name or respond to my request. So I suggest we all send him our feelings of his intolerant biblical extremism. His (or her) address is hwaters25@tampabay.rr.com. I’m sure he’d love to be inundated with e-mails from gay people. Have at it.
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This is reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina, when several right-wing preachers including John Hagee of San Antonio suggested that God sent the storm to punish New Orleans for Southern Decadence. Interestingly, it turns out that among the people who stayed in New Orleans for Gustav were a few dozen gays who insisted on putting on some form of parade. Talk about Pride!!! According to the Chicago Tribune:
“In New Orleans, although a handful of stragglers vowed to stay—a few dozen scantily-clad participants went ahead with an annual gay parade in the French Quarter—every neighborhood of the city of 310,000 looked like a ghost town before Gustav’s arrival.”
Anyhow, here’s my question: If God sent Katrina to slam New Orleans because of Southern Decadence, doesn’t that mean He also must have sent Gustav to fuck up the Republican Convention?
Is this why it always rains when I wash my car? Or is that everybody?