When I was in the process of accepting my Gay self, things were tough enough with religion and the unpredictable reactions of those who learned who I truly was, but there was the added pressure of being responsible for two things I had never thought of, a) the end of society as we know it and b) any number of natural or manmade disasters like fires, floods, earthquakes, planes flying into tall buildings, and hurricanes because Gods’ hatred of us causes Him so much anger that killing Gays was not only His aim, but the collateral damage done to everyone else, the non-Gay people, is all right because that will get a whole lot more people to hate Gays too.

When I lived in both California and Oklahoma there was always a big amusement park nearby and it did not take long to see that there were low attendance days like Superbowl Sunday and Easter, and those became unofficial Gay Days as Gays would show up on these days knowing the majority of the crowd was friendly and no one could claim their child was traumatized because two men kissed.

In spite of not being officially sanctioned, and realistically with no way to screen every person entering for their sexual orientation even if the park ownership hated who was entering, claiming it was officially sanctioned, politicians and evangelical leaders used their purposeful misrepresentations to aid in promoting their agendas. The announced punishments from God for promoting these abomination days was earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes hitting the areas where those parks were because of the Gays.

And here we have Hurricane Ian hitting Florida where the only Gay related things recently have been anti-Gay actions, the Don’t Say Gay law, book purges in public and school libraries, and the laws dealing with Transgender school students.

Considering the number of documented times a punishment from God heading to Florida to get Disney, following the European as opposed American Model, suddenly turned North hitting Southern coastal areas the majority of whose populations were conservative Baptists and evangelicals.

That and the present hurricane seem to bring into question who God is actually punishing.

The other charge I and other Gays had to deal with was the claim that if we got our constitutional and Creator endowed rights, if we are allowed to enter military service or enter a same sex marriage, society as we knew would end and the United States, like the Roman empire, would be no more.

While we got many of those rights, can be thanked for our service, and have our committed relationships legally recognized, the conservative, religious right has attacked the capitol building, did what they could to interfere with the peaceful transition of power, stacked the Supreme court to take away people’s rights, especially those of women, have adopted many of the attitudes and practices of fascism, and seem more bent on destroying the country as we know it than Gay people are or ever were.

We just want to live in peace and equality.

I find these ironies amusing.

God seems rather angry now and, as He often did in the past, is once again sending a message to those who claim they are the Christians while they do everything that goes against the teachings thereof.

And certainly, they are not going to claim that God was so angry with Key West He sent a hurricane to hit the whole state.

We shall see.

Or will DeSantis get the message?

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