UKIP councillor claims gay marriage to blame for UK storms and floods A UKIP councillor has blamed the recent storms and floods which devastated many communities on the Government's decision to legalise gay marriage. David Silvester, who defected from the Tories to the UK Independence Party in protest at David Cameron's support for same-sex unions, claimed he had warned the Prime Minister that the legislation would result in "disasters". And now the Henley-on-Thames councillor says that the country has been "beset by storms" since the passage of the new law on gay marriage, because Mr Cameron had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel". In a 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. "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." Read the rest here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ukip-councillor-david-silvester-claims-3035201
I think a suitable reply to this has already been devised: https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-pegg/ukip-shipping-forecast (although it probably only makes sense to British ears)
When York Minster was struck by lightning some thirty years ago, some people said it was because the then Bishop of Durham had expressed his doubts about the Virgin Birth. But the religious commentator Gerald Priestman suggested that it might have been the work of the Devil. Perhaps Mr Silvester might consider that point.
Well?........ I never liked or trusted Cameron !!!! But? Mm.. They'll have a lot of pursuading to do!.