Homosexuals have been blamed for hurricanes, including Isaac, Katrina, and Sandy. In the U.S., right-wing religious groups including the Westboro Baptist Church continue to claim that homosexuals are responsible for disasters. This discourse was revived by Anita Bryant in 1976 when she blamed homosexuals for droughts in California.
This trope was common in early modern Christian literature homosexuals were blamed for earthquakes, floods, famines, plagues, invasions of Saracens, and field mice. The argument that homosexuals cause natural disasters has been around for more than a thousand years, even before Justinian blamed earthquakes on 'unchecked homosexual behavior' in the sixth century.
1.11.3 Conflict with national identity or sovereigntyĪnti-gay activists claim that homosexuality goes against traditional family values, that homosexuality is a Trojan Horse, or that it destroys families and humankind through homosexual recruitment which will lead to the extinction of humanity.1.5 Homosexuality as a choice or lifestyle.
