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Hartline: ‘California Fires Rage As Gay Marriage Protesters Defy God’

OMFG. He’s at it again—recloseted homosexual and anti-gay activist James Hartline is ensuring his place in the nutbag hall of fame with another one of his rants on Acts of GodTM being caused by TEH GAYZ.

God keeps trying to get their attention. They, for their part, are shouting so loud for the acceptance of homosexuality, that they cannot hear the thunderous warnings of God: “Repent! For the judgment comes soon!”

Each time homosexual activists attempt to force their agenda on California, there have been raging, massive, incinerating fires sweeping across the California landscape.

Today, people are running for their lives as 800 California homes have burned down and the firestorm is spreading like a nuclear holocaust. Yet, the radical homosexual anarchists rampage upon the streets of this state demanding the destruction of marriage and family, and the establishment of their socialistic dark vision for society.

You see, the problem is this: God has plans for California in the near days ahead. Thus, these attempts to force an ungodly tyranny on this state are being met blow with blow by God. God is saying, “California shall be a refuge for America when the catastrophes come. California belongs to Me, not the advocates of sexual anarchy.”

The more that homosexual activists press their battle in California, the more there will be great calamaties in this state.

You know, this bleating seems very familiar…oh yeah, he did this same sort of nonsense last year, same time, same bat channel, in the “homosexual stronghold of Hillcrest” over the fires in San Diego.

They shook their fists at God and said, “We don’t care what God says, we will issue our legal brief to support gay marriage in San Diego!” Then Mayor Jerry Sanders mocked the Christian vote and signed off on this rebellious legal document to support same-sex marriage.

And then the streets of La Jolla under the Mt. Soledad Cross began to cave in.

They shook their fists at God and said, “We don’t care what the Bible says, We want the California school children indoctrinated into homosexuality!” And then Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law the heinous SB777 which bans the use of “mom” and “dad” in the text books and promotes homosexuality to all school children in California.

And then the wildfires of Southern California engulfed the land like a raging judgment against the radicalized anti-christian California rebels.

Mike Tidmus has more of the insanity.

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One of my contributors, Autumn, who lives in San Diego said:

And, we just gosh darn know that what James Hartline says is God’s Word incarnate—that’s because James Hartline is a self-proclaimed prophet of God:

God has granted me the privilege of prophetically looking into the mighty vision that He is in the process of establishing for this generation.

So, the Prophet James hath spoken!

*sigh*

 

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Posted by Pam Spaulding on 05:46 PM • (59) Comments

One of my favourite incarnations of the Invisible Bearded Sky Man™: Knuckles the Extortionist (and, in this case, arsonist).

Comment #1: Gracchus  on  11/17  at  05:52 PM

Why, oh why are all these wierdos from California? I’m so embarassed.

Comment #2: Mark  on  11/17  at  05:54 PM

Funny how God waited till Prop8 passed before he brought down Hist wrath .. one would think that He would have shot for a week prior to the election…. Well maybe the ol’ God machine just has a delay…or maybe He was busy with something else

Comment #3: sjk  on  11/17  at  06:00 PM

TEH

Please don’t.  If I wanted to celebrate ignorance (feigned in this case, I know) I would be a Republican.

Comment #4: Notorious P.A.T.  on  11/17  at  06:02 PM

That’s strange.  Because God told me just a few weeks ago that He was granting me the power to gaze into His glorious vision and share His message with the world, and He was quite emphatic that the fires were because the state had voted for Prop 8.

I told Him I thought that was an extreme and needlessly destructive reaction, but you know God and His flair for the melodramatic.

Comment #5: acallidryas  on  11/17  at  06:02 PM

That makes no sense.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to assume that their god is gay and punishing California for outlawing Prop 8?

Comment #6: Beast  on  11/17  at  06:10 PM

Each time the hillside brush has dried to aridity and the winds have kicked up, blowing down live power lines in California (in other words, autumn), there have been raging, massive, incinerating fires sweeping across the California landscape.

There. Fixed that for him.

If God is using wildfires to send a message to Californians, that message has nothing to do with homosexuals but rather is something along the lines of “Don’t build expensive homes in fire-prone areas.” Or possibly “Pony up to bury your electrical wires, boneheads.”

Comment #7: Karalora  on  11/17  at  06:14 PM

The fires are a punishment from some god for electing the Terminator governor.

Comment #8: tpx  on  11/17  at  06:15 PM

All prophets are self-proclaimed.

Comment #9: tpx  on  11/17  at  06:16 PM

I guess that explains the huge fires that consumed Massachusetts a few years ago.  What? There weren’t any?  Oh, must have been a hurricane that wiped out entire cities, then. No?  Earthquake?  Plague of locusts?  Lightning strikes on Cambridge City Hall? Anything?

Oh, the Red Sox finally won the World Series that year? What a terrible example of God’s wrath. I mean that literally, if he was really wrathy don’t you think he would have made them lose?

Comment #10: Christopher Davis  on  11/17  at  06:17 PM

punishing California for outlawing Prop 8?”

Beast on 11/17 at 04:10 PM
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That would be “outlawing gay marriage.”  (I have lovely dental drugs today…)

Comment #11: Beast  on  11/17  at  06:19 PM

Oh, the Red Sox finally won the World Series that year? What a terrible example of God’s wrath. I mean that literally, if he was really wrathy don’t you think he would have made them lose?
God’s wrath was to make Boston sports fans insufferable to the rest of the nation.

Comment #12: Doug H. (Fausto no more)  on  11/17  at  06:29 PM

Can I just say Hartline’s crazy? ‘Cause that guy is just fucking crazy.

Dude that crazy probably has somebody buried in his basement.

Comment #13: Scott  on  11/17  at  06:30 PM

I like how god must have been punishing California forever, ‘cause these fires are an annual thing, even when there are no arsonists around to speed the process. 

So even before there were white, European settlers (some of whom must have been gay) god was taking out on us.

Of course, in a Reichwing red-state place like Kansas they have tornadoes, etc.  What’s god punishing those good, straight, Republican Americans for?...

Comment #14: MikeEss  on  11/17  at  06:37 PM

Beast, I was thinking the same thing.
So Hartline is crazy AND stupid.

Comment #15: Bill S  on  11/17  at  06:41 PM

Oh, the Red Sox finally won the World Series that year? What a terrible example of God’s wrath. I mean that literally, if he was really wrathy don’t you think he would have made them lose?

I think this is more Satan’s domain—would explain why the Cubs remain cursed after all these years :(

Comment #16: sjk  on  11/17  at  06:43 PM

Anarchists bent on forcing socialism?

Insanity and stupidity with a heaping helping of sweet, sweet hubris sauce.

Comment #17: Sarcastro  on  11/17  at  06:47 PM

Yeah, anyone heard about that flood that totally wiped out Connecticut?

Comment #18: Rebecca  on  11/17  at  06:51 PM

God has granted me the privilege of prophetically looking into the mighty vision that He is in the process of establishing for this generation.

There are meds he could take for that.

Comment #19: Molly  on  11/17  at  06:58 PM

I guess that explains the huge fires that consumed Massachusetts a few years ago.  What? There weren’t any?  Oh, must have been a hurricane that wiped out entire cities, then. No?

Duhhh - New Orleans?  God was obviously aiming for Boston, but found it really difficult to steer a hurricane.

Comment #20: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  11/17  at  06:58 PM

Okay, so to make it a refuge for the oncoming apocalypse, god has to destroy it apocolyptically first?  Does that make any sense at all??!!??

Comment #21: Devilham  on  11/17  at  07:02 PM

Along those line, God sure has poor aim and timing. Wiping out the churches in New Orleans the week BEFORE all the queers showed up for Southern Decadence. Sending fires to ravage parts of California stunningly far away from San Francisco. Weeks after the Folsom Street Fair.

All the tornados in the Midwest, because, um, um, oh yeah, they didn’t fight hard enough for Prop 8, even though it passed. Oh, and for not demanding the federal anti-gay amendment. That’s it.

Comment #22: Lymis  on  11/17  at  07:04 PM

Anybody off the top of their head able to tell us whether the fires are in areas that voted predominantly for or against 8? Looks like West Hollywood is fairly non-combusted.

Comment #23: Lymis  on  11/17  at  07:06 PM

Each time homosexual activists have attempted to force their agenda on California, it has prevented God from wiping out all life on Earth in a second terrible Flood.

Gay activism is obviously all that stands between Life As We Know It and “Noah, I want you to build an ark,”

Pray for the Gay ... prevent the Flood today.

Comment #24: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog  on  11/17  at  07:06 PM

I’m going to echo Dan Savage and say that if *god* is punishing Californians for the protests against Prop 8, then he’s as blind as Mr. Magoo. So, instead of punishing, I dunno, the actual gay community and area such as West Hollywood (or, better yet, San Francisco, a gay haven) God, who is all powerful and all knowing, is burning the areas NO WHERE NEAR that neighborhood! There is no lighting strike taking out the Pacific Design Center, no fire to tear up The Abbey. Nope. God’s going after rich people in the hills and people in trailer houses.

If God is using wildfires to send a message to Californians, that message has nothing to do with homosexuals but rather is something along the lines of “Don’t build expensive homes in fire-prone areas.

karalora for the win!

Comment #25: UltraMagnus  on  11/17  at  07:09 PM

...if Jimmy Hartline is going to go all Old Testament on teh gai, he really ought to go back and read up on the Old Testament God, because That Dude usually did a better job of hitting what he was aiming at that what we’ve seen with these fires…

Comment #26: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester  on  11/17  at  07:13 PM

Praise the gays—or it’ll rain for 40 days!
Equal rights—or it’ll pour for 40 nights!

(I’ve only been a well-known prophet for just a few minutes, but I’m already even better at it! This is further proof of divine inspiration.)

Comment #27: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog  on  11/17  at  07:13 PM

Yeah, the fires are all about Teh Gay. No sir. It isn’t climate change. Having to do something about that would conflict with conservative ideology, therefore, climate change must not exist. It is the fault of Teh Gay.

Comment #28: Ben D.  on  11/17  at  07:14 PM

If God was punishing California for homosexuality, shouldn’t Prop 8 have failed?

Comment #29: The Angry Geologist  on  11/17  at  07:44 PM

If God doesn’t want people to be gay, why doesn’t he just use his Super Duper God Powers to turn ALL gay people straight, whether they ask him to or not? Why does he only do it for wackadoodles like James Hartline?
I’m convinced that God doesn’t want us to Change Our Ways! because if He did, he’d send more credible spokesmen.

Comment #30: Bill S  on  11/17  at  07:53 PM

“If God doesn’t want people to be gay, why doesn’t he just use his Super Duper God Powers to turn ALL gay people straight, whether they ask him to or not?”

Geez!  Everybody knows it’s a test.  If you give in to those sweet, sweet longings for Homo Sex, you failed…

Comment #31: MikeEss  on  11/17  at  07:58 PM

You know, they don’t seem to be paying attention.  Whenever Obama speaks outside, even if the faithful are praying for rain, it’s clear, and in the case of winning the election, unseasonably warm and lovely.

Mother Nature likes the liberals.

Comment #32: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  11/17  at  08:02 PM

I see everyone else got there before me, but since Prop 8 passed, wouldn’t the fires be a punishment for it having passed?  I realize Logic 101 isn’t very big with the wingnuts, but shouldn’t the fact that Californians obeyed God’s Will and banned gay marriage have made Him happy (and prevented the fires) if He’s really against gay marriage?

Comment #33: Mnemosyne  on  11/17  at  08:03 PM

You know, they don’t seem to be paying attention.  Whenever Obama speaks outside, even if the faithful are praying for rain, it’s clear, and in the case of winning the election, unseasonably warm and lovely.

No no no.  See, if the weather goes against what you prayed for, clearly that’s a sign that witches are using Satan’s power to thwart the will of God.  But if the weather does what you want, clearly God favors you.  Either way, God always likes you best.

Comment #34: Mnemosyne  on  11/17  at  08:08 PM

” I realize Logic 101 isn’t very big with the wingnuts, but shouldn’t the fact that Californians obeyed God’s Will and banned gay marriage have made Him happy (and prevented the fires) if He’s really against gay marriage?”

God’s just pissed because the LGBTQs didn’t just meekly go back into the closet and shut the door behind them…

...or some other stupid bigoted bullshit…

Comment #35: MikeEss  on  11/17  at  08:12 PM

Geez!  Everybody knows it’s a test.  If you give in to those sweet, sweet longings for Homo Sex, you failed…

God doesn’t love me.  He weaseled out by making sure I liked the ladies too much to be tempted by the dudes.

And I don’t have any sisters.  And 15 year olds are just too much like kids to go lusting after.  What the hell am I supposed to be tempted towards that’s immoral?

Oh wait - married women!

Comment #36: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  11/17  at  08:22 PM

James Hartline? I thought that was Wallace D. Wattles!

Comment #37: Childe O' Grace  on  11/17  at  08:24 PM

So if His side loses, God goes on a destructive spree.  If His side wins, God goes on a destructive spree anyway.

That settles it.  God is a Raiders fan.

Comment #38: Shaenon  on  11/17  at  08:25 PM

He’s obviously not a native Californian:

Link

By the way, the weather here in San Francisco has been delightfully sunny and clear since we had our big Anti-8 rally this past weekend.  It’s like 80 degrees outside, seriously.  For any communities out there looking to get on God’s good side, I highly recommend public gayness.

Comment #40: Shaenon  on  11/17  at  08:28 PM

????

I wonder why God gets mad when gays get marriage licenses but not when they ‘live in sin?’

Comment #41: Magis  on  11/17  at  08:29 PM

It’s funny that when disaster struck Missouri in the form of floods (come on, an old testament fave) that wasn’t punishment for something, was it?

It doesn’t amaze me that these christianist freaks get publicity.  The media loves freaks, always has.  What always but shouldn’t surprise me is that some people always support these asshats.  Bizarre, just bizarre.

Comment #42: ice weasel  on  11/17  at  09:28 PM

Unfortunately, the first severe fire started in Santa Barbara—-one of the few solidly-anti-Prop-8 counties. I said to a friend a few days ago, “How long do you suppose it’ll be before the gays get blamed for this?”

Of course, the friend to whom I said this lives in Santa Barbara with his same-sex partner, and their home is currently still standing while the ones around it have burned. Take that, James Hartline.

Comment #43: FundamentallyFlawed  on  11/17  at  09:52 PM

Santa Cruz County voted 70% against Prop 8. We’re also signing onto a lawsuit against it.

And yet, the wildfires hit our county before the court order to marry gays went into effect (our offices opened at midnight for that, if I recall correctly, so couples could start getting married ASAP). Things have been pretty quiet since then. I didn’t even hear of mudslides, which we were warned about when the first heavy post-fire rains came.

God must love liberals. smile

Comment #44: Samantha Vimes  on  11/17  at  09:54 PM

Hey, wait - I thought the last refuge during the coming Apocalypse was ALASKA. Isn’t that what Sarah Palin’s church said? Sarah doesn’t have wattles, so I would believe her on this one.

Comment #45: Elizabeth in Portland  on  11/17  at  10:05 PM

They were talking about this on the radio this morning.  Or rather, they were talking about how he would say this, he said it in the past, without naming names.

They also pointed out that of the five counties on fire, only one voted No on Prop 8.  And that the fires are really, really far away from the bastion of gay power that is San Francisco.

Comment #46: Crissa  on  11/17  at  10:10 PM

You know, there are wildfires every year in California. Mudslides and earthquakes, too.  There are thunderstorms and tornadoes every year in the Midwest.  There are hurricanes every year in the gulf coast.  It’s almost like a cyclical climate thing more than a specific deity reacting in spite and vengeance.

Comment #47: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  11/17  at  10:23 PM

But Caren,

That’s the best kind of spite and vengeance. Because there’s always some kind of sin for G*d to punish, and if it’s not obvious, you have to scurry around until you figure out what humanity did wrong.

(What, G*d as the prototype of the drunken, abusive father? naaaaah)

Comment #48: paul  on  11/17  at  10:35 PM

Wouldn’t it make more sense to assume that their god is gay and punishing California for outlawing Prop 8?

Beast, I had the same idea when I did the post below.

http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2008/11/god-punishes-california-for-banning-gay.html

Comment #49: Tommykey  on  11/18  at  12:18 AM

No no no.  See, if the weather goes against what you prayed for, clearly that’s a sign that witches are using Satan’s power to thwart the will of God.  But if the weather does what you want, clearly God favors you.  Either way, God always likes you best.

Clearly, they cannot choose the wine in front of us. smile

Comment #50: Kyra  on  11/18  at  02:15 AM

Whoever left the asylum door unlocked needs to be fired

Comment #51: Ex Patriate  on  11/18  at  09:14 AM

Yeah, that one slid past me. CALIFORNIA is God’s refuge for the faithful? As in, “Civilization is in ruins, let’s rebuild on the world’s most famous faultline?”

Comment #52: Lymis  on  11/18  at  10:02 AM

But that’s it exactly, Lymis!

You have to rebuild on a faultline where the odds are likely that a giant earthquake will destroy everything in 100-150 years.  Then as long as the Big One doesn’t hit, you know God is pleased.  If it does, well, we must have fucked up somehow. 

Then we should build our refuge at the edge of a volcano.  Hawaii looks like paradise, and it would be reclaiming land from Blackazoid.  God will be well-pleased…or he’ll send the fires of hell to smite us!

Spite and smite rhyme for a reason.

Comment #53: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  11/18  at  11:48 AM

Ah, schadenfreude:

James Dobson is laying people off from Focus on the Family.  That $500K you shelled out to ban gay marriage in California isn’t looking like such a great bargain now, is it, Jimmy?

Comment #54: Mnemosyne  on  11/18  at  12:52 PM

While Orange County approved Proposition 8 by 57.8% of the vote, it was approved by wider margins in Anaheim (62.6%), Brea (62.6%) and Yorba Linda (66.1%).

Looks like the Old Man in the Sky misplaced his bifocals again.

Comment #55: Telegram Sam  on  11/18  at  12:53 PM

I think this is more Satan’s domain—would explain why the Cubs remain cursed after all these years :(

sjk on 11/17 at 04:43 PM

In that case the Greeks were right - there is a goat god.

Comment #56: phylosopher  on  11/18  at  01:22 PM

Can we like get a quote from god or something?  These surrogates aren’t helping his/her public image one whit.

Comment #57: Caveat  on  11/18  at  02:34 PM

Stop posting photos of that man, or at least put some sort of censoring black bar across his neck because it’s giving me nightmares. (Okay, I know I’m not supposed to judge someone by his looks, but I’d like to think that my aversion to his neck is due in part to my aversion to him)

Comment #58: JPlum  on  11/19  at  01:20 AM

That $500K you shelled out to ban gay marriage in California isn’t looking like such a great bargain now, is it, Jimmy?

Quality is never cheap.

Comment #59: Bob Zimerman  on  11/19  at  03:55 PM
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