Last week, so-called “ex-gay” activist James Hartline tried to swift boat me on an op-ed I wrote about race and Proposition 8. I responded by pointing out that he was nuts. He had claimed to have prayed away AIDS and is so extreme that he once attacked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as “one of the biggest anti-christian supporters of homosexuality and abortion in the American government.”
Well, today he sunk to new depths of dementia by claiming protests against Proposition 8 are the cause of wildfires in California. According to Hartline:
God keeps trying to get their attention. They, for their part, are shouting so loud for the acceptance of homosexuality, that they cannot hear the thunderous warnings of God: ‘Repent! For the judgment comes soon!’Each time homosexual activists attempt to force their agenda on California, there have been raging, massive, incinerating fires sweeping across the California landscape.
The sad thing is, Hartline is what passes for an ex-gay “leader.” With this bizarre post, Hartline’s small shred of remaining credibility has now been turned to ash.
So what is the difference between James hartline and Fred Phelps, who declares every dead soldier to be ‘God’s judgement’? I see none.
If wildfires are indeed God’s judgement, then Hartline’s god is not exactly very accurate. (Since our planet is on a collision couse with Andromeda in only a billion years, his aim is almost as bad as his design, arguably).
But we should not simply laugh nutcases like Hartline off, as yet another example of how faith rots the mind. Should there ever be another terrorist attack in any metropolis – another Bali, Madrid, London – an attack, which is likely to be much more accurate in its aim, I’d like Hartline to be reminded of his stupidity, and I’d like to know if he is prepared to commit treason, like the thankfully deceased, unraptured Falwell did on 9/11, and say it was indeed a Good Thing.
How disturbing. As a firefighter whom is gay here in North Carolina I ask: Am I sinning if God is trying to get my attention and I put the fire He started out? I wonder. Hmmmm.
Wayne, Wayne, Wayne… nobody can Swiftboat you in a rowing boat :)
“I responded by pointing out that he was nuts.”
Sorry, but Oslo is not going to call you about that ‘discovery’ either.
I’m just glad that the very disturbed James Hartline hasn’t (yet) exgaypersuaded a very naive, very young Christian lady to marry him, to prove y’all wrong. To her eventual regret.
(There is only room for one Greg Quinlan in this World. Surely?)
Interesting. It really is interesting considering when gay marriage was first legalized in California in May fires started everywhere and these “ex-gays” and anti-gay activists said that they were caused from gay marriage being allowed.
I’m gonna turn it around and say that the reason why there is fires in California is because God’s gay children are being denied the right to express their love for each other through marriage.
Of course we know it has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that California ALWAYS got fires and have been at their fiercest because of the weather.