Gay Weather Patterns
A couple days ago, a UKIP local councillor in cosmopolitan Henley-on-Thames, David Silvester, wrote to his local paper arguing that God is punishing Britain through a series of storms in late December and early January because of the Government’s policy of allowing same sex marriage:
‘The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war.
‘I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same-sex marriage bill.
‘But he went ahead despite a 600,000-signature petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own parliamentary party saying that he should not do so.’
Blaming the Prime Minister for the bad weather, he added: ‘It is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods.
UKIP belatedly suspended Silvester from the party (after first defending his right to his opinions). This is unfortunate for our God fearing councillor, as he left the Conservatives and joined UKIP this past year as a direct reaction against the PM’s policy. Presumably, he joined UKIP because he perceives their positions as more conducive and accepting of his heavenly-inspired homophobia.
While this has made huge news on this small island, none of this should be remotely interesting to an American. Blaming storms on God’s displeasure over LGBT advances in the realm of basic civil and human rights is part of the basic toolkit for Greater Wingnuttia. However, Nicholas Pegg gave us the UKIP Shipping Forecast, which made the rounds this morning (GMT). For anybody who is at all familiar with the Radio 4 Shipping Forecast, Pegg’s parody is quality hilarious.