True North

Brodkorb notes a Robin Marty post at MN Campaign Report:

This post from MN Campaign Report is so insensitive and extreme:

“If God took out New Orleans because of the homosexuals, why’d he go after the boyscout camp? (Note: I can make fun of it because my cousin was there [he’s fine], your mileage may vary).” Source: MN Campaign Report, June 12, 2008

 Er, sorry, Robin, but no, you can’t; having a cousin there doesn’t buy you a pass on this one.

The notion that anyone would say G*d “went after” either place “because of” gays, scouts, or anything else is as noxious to most Christians as the events themselves were horrifying. 

The difference?  I don’t know a single credible conservative commentator who didn’t slap their head in transferred embarassment at the whole “Katrina was a punishment for gays” thing.  The impossibly vast majority of us are very loathe to try to tell our Creator what his motivations are.

Being the optimistic sort that I am, I’m going to cross my fingers and hope that the post was really just random characters her baby pecked, inadvertently and yet miraculously, into the keyboard.  Or perhaps Rew is woozy from spit-up fumes.  I’ve been there and seen what it can do; perhaps that is an example of one’s brain on eau de garf.

The interesting part, I suspect, is going to be seeing which leftybloggers leap to MCR’s defense, and their rationalizations for trying to turn this on my friend and radio colleague Brodkorb.  That is going to be fun to watch.

Cross-posted and comments welcome at Shot In The Dark.