stevelcfc Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 UKIP councillor blames storms and floods on gay marriage A UKIP councillor has blamed the recent storms and heavy floods across Britain on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage. David Silvester said the prime minister had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel". In a letter to his local paper he said he had warned David Cameron the legislation would result in "disaster". UKIP said Mr Silvester's views were "not the party's belief" but defended his right to state his opinions. Divine retribution Mr Silvester, from Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, defected from the Tories in protest at Mr Cameron's support for same-sex unions. In the letter to the Henley Standard he wrote: "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." He added: "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." He then went to on blame the prime minister for the bad weather: "It is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods." He went on to say that no man, however powerful "can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it". A UKIP spokeswoman said: "It is quite evident that this is not the party's belief but the councillor's own and he is more than entitled to express independent thought despite whether or not other people may deem it standard or correct." Independent thought made the UK "a wonderful, proud, diverse and free country". Henley's Tory MP John Howell, said: "I thought Mr Silvester's letter was not the sort of thing that he should have written in today's age. "He really needs to consider his position." (bbc news)
Deucalion Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 A recent poll also suggested that UKIP are the most well regarded political party and Nigel Farage is more popular than any other party leader.
Vacamion Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 To be honest, if you actually believe the rest of the stuff in religion, it's not THAT much of a stretch to think that a divine Creator, when not setting the cosmological constant or worrying about the stuff going on around the several hundred billion stars in several hundred billion galaxies, actually cares enough about blokes touching each others' smelly bits to smite the Somerset levels with floodwater. That said, UKIP are still going to cost the Tories enough votes to deny them a majority in next year's election. Vote UKIP, get Labour.
SMX11 Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Another day, another UKIP smear campaign. Can't the media understand that deeply religious people may hold these sort of opinions? The party itself doesn't share them in terms of policy so what is the problem?
The God Emperor Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 I agree, its pretty clear in the Quran what Allah thinks about this sort of thing.
AndWhat? Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 One day these weird Bible bashers will be looked on the same as racists. That is nothing short of hate speech and he is literally ****ing crazy. He wrote a letter to the prime minister warning him of gods wrath?? Jesus ****ing Christ I hate religion with a passion.
SMX11 Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 To be honest, if you actually believe the rest of the stuff in religion, it's not THAT much of a stretch to think that a divine Creator, when not setting the cosmological constant or worrying about the stuff going on around the several hundred billion stars in several hundred billion galaxies, actually cares enough about blokes touching each others' smelly bits to smite the Somerset levels with floodwater. That said, UKIP are still going to cost the Tories enough votes to deny them a majority in next year's election. Vote UKIP, get Labour. Lets be honest, if you can't get a majority when Gordon Brown was labours leader then you are going to struggle when you are a party in office. It will be another coalition.
AndWhat? Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Another day, another UKIP smear campaign. Can't the media understand that deeply religious people may hold these sort of opinions? The party itself doesn't share them in terms of policy so what is the problem? It does state that a UKIP spokeswoman Said it was obviously not their views. Doesn't take anything away from the fact that a member of their party is a homophobic dinosaur still living in the dark ages.
SMX11 Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 It does state that a UKIP spokeswoman Said it was obviously not their views. Doesn't take anything away from the fact that a member of their party is a homophobic dinosaur still living in the dark ages. Well unfortunately there are still plenty of these people around fortunately not enough to dictate policy.
Rincewind Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 So floods causes people to be gay? I bet Mrs Noah was happy about that.
Jimothy Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 So floods causes people to be gay? I bet Mrs Noah was happy about that. No, floods are caused by people being gay.
DennisNedry Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Is it religious discrimination to mock him for his beliefs? For the record, I think the bloke's a moron.
One Legged Beaver Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Sounds like he has the potential to be another Godfrey Bloom....
BoneDog Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Blatant Tory plant to discredit (again) the only party left that are kind of supporting British Sovereignty. Bet he's having a good laugh about this. Top level Tory's and Labour are now both full fledged commies/zios and are not acting in the British's interests at all, but like they say 'a nation gets the leaders it deserves'. SEE YOU IN THE GULAGS!
Buce Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Well unfortunately there are still plenty of these people around fortunately not enough to dictate policy. Perhaps not, but it's truly disturbing that these people can sit on a jury.
The Blur Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Seriously, 600,000 Christians signed the petition? Is this petition restricted to UK residents only? I find that hard to believe seeing that only petition to be debated in House of Commons was the price in car petrols prices which was the only petition that got over 100,000 signatures.
Captain... Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 I thought the floods were because God was unhappy with the state of modern football, and until we change it we will continue to be punished. I've written a letter to the head of sky and the premier league, hopefully they till take note.
Rincewind Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 Other issues are debated but if they involve the ordinary bloke on the street MP's do not turn up or mock and laugh at them.m
21st Century Fox Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 I thought the floods were part of Paramount's marketing campaign for Noah.
Stadt Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 I'd understand this if they supported everything the bible said but they pick and choose what's wrong and what's not. But I suppose hypocrisy is the unwritten rule of the bible.
Guest Sharpe's Fox Posted 19 January 2014 Posted 19 January 2014 I'm not religious myself but this sort of thing slanders the good work many Christians do in their community. People avoid religion because they are scared to be seen as old fashioned, homophobic zealots and this bellend doesn't help.
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