http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/lead-religious-right-group-promotes.html

Lead religious right group promotes theory that
God wiped out NOLA on purpose

by John in DC

9/02/2005

Geez, this is from the American Family Association's propaganda organ
AgapePress. http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/22005b.asp

It's one thing when some nutjob says this, it's another when the
American Family Association, one of the LARGEST and most powerful
groups of the radical right, gives those nutjobs air time.



Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans,
also sees God's mercy in the aftermath of Katrina -- but in a
different way.

Shanks says the hurricane has wiped out much of the rampant sin common
to the city.

The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless
Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as
local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the
annual event known as "Southern Decadence" -- an annual six-day "gay
pride" event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week -- God's
judgment would be felt.

"New Orleans now is abortion free.

New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free.

New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the
witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things
now," Shanks says.

"God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of
there -- and now we're going to start over again."

The New Orleans pastor is adamant. Christians, he says, need to
confront sin.

"It's time for us to stand up against wickedness so that God won't
have to deal with that wickedness," he says.

Believers, he says, are God's "authorized representatives on the face
of the Earth" and should say they "don't want unrighteous men in
office," for example. In addition, he says Christians should not
hesitate to voice their opinions about such things as abortion,
prayer, and homosexual marriage.

"We don't want a Supreme Court that is going to say it's all right to
kill little boys and girls, ... it's all right to take prayer out of
schools, and it's all right to legalize sodomy, opening the door for
same-sex marriage and all of that."

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