But you still might be surprised just how often it happens. Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the church's founder and leader Fred Phelps, tweeted Tuesday morning, 'We bow in humble thanks 2 God 4 Sandy! Thank God for a plain message delivered to a puddle of states that proudly flip Him off! #FagMarriage'Īs we know, blaming death, destruction, and mayhem on LGBT people simply isn't new. Then of course there were the ever-consistent folks at the Westboro Baptist Church, who praised God for the storm. 'Just look at what has happened this year.' 'God is systematically destroying America,' McTernan wrote in a blog post on his website this week. Hurricane Sandy has caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars in damage, but McTernan used the then-pending hurricane to remind followers that the massive storm is just another bit of evidence that America is going to pot. This time, the 'winner' was chaplain John McTernan, the founder of Defend and Proclaim the Faith ministries.
When a major disaster happens, does every out-of-left-field crazy fringe preacher race to become the first to blame LGBT people?
