Did God cause Hurricane Katrina?

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Why yes indeed, according to evangelical pastor John Hagee, who recently endorsed John McCain for the Republican presidential nominee.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Hagee said:

All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are—were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades.

John McCain is being asked by many to denounce Hagee's endorsement, similar to the way he did last week when conservative radio commentator Bill Cunningham used an introduction to one of McCain's rallies to make inflammatory remarks about Barack Obama.

These fundamentalist nutbags are truly scary sometimes, but it's good to see people like John McCain realising they don't have to pander to such a small but vocal mob-like part of their base to represent their party.

And as Dan Savage points out in his article:

God, according to Hagee, is all-knowing and all-powerful… but incapable, it seems, of a surgical strike. Annoyed by the gay decadence in the French Quarter, God sent a hurricane that drowned little old ladies in their attics in the Ninth Ward, sick people in their beds in hospitals, and old folks in retirement homes. The French Quarter’s gay bars—site of all that decadence—survived Katrina unscathed.