Why do Hurricanes hate teh Gays?

[trumad]

I think the craziest meme ever is that Hurricane's purposely aim at Cities or States that Love the Gays.

Was it Pat Robertson who started it?

[jberryhill]

1. "The gods are angry" is a lot older than Pat Robertson

[ryan_cats]

15. They are also crazy

They are also crazy.

[ck4829]

2. It's a specific form of "(Natural disaster) is caused by (Group of people we don't like)"

Jews caused plagues
Witches caused blights
Gays cause hurricanes

For fundamentalists, the answer is "gays are bad and will cause bad things to happen" and then they go looking for questions such as "Why is the economy not as strong right now?" or "What causes dangerous weather?"

It is confirmation bias.

[TeeYiYi]

3. Well why not?...

In 1999, a tornado hit downtown Salt Lake City and destroyed the best gay bar. If tornadoes hate teh gays, why not hurricanes?

TYY

[KamaAina]

5. The best gay bar? In Salt Lake City?

There's more than one?!

[TeeYiYi]

6. There are more than ten right now...

Salt Lake has always had a thriving gay community.

TYY

[KamaAina]

7. I'm picturing a whole lot of closeted Mormons

tiptoeing in there wearing Groucho glasses.

[TeeYiYi]

10. A large part...

...of the gay community in Utah, consists of LDS returned missionaries. Sadly, another part of that group ends up being suicide statistics, due to intolerance and guilt.

Salt Lake City has always been one of the largest gay communities in the United States.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A national survey shows Salt Lake City ranks seventh highest of the nation's top 50 metropolitan areas for the percentage of adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

The Gallup survey, released Friday, found 4.7 percent of Salt Lake City residents identify as LGBT. San Francisco ranked highest at 6.2 percent, while Birmingham, Alabama, ranked lowest at 2.6 percent.

TYY

ETA: Back in the day, mid to late 70s, BYU (Brigham Young University) used to send spies to the Sun Tavern to look for BYU students and write down license plate numbers in the parking lots. Lots of kids got excommunicated from the LDS church and kicked out of BYU behind those tactics.

[cascadiance]

4. Maybe Miami fans are trying to find someone to blame for losing to Cincinnati?

[trumad]

9. Ouch!

[clarice]

8. That's why there has never been a hurricane Liberace. nt

[KamaAina]

11. Thread win!

[clarice]

12. aw shucks. nt

[backscatter712]

13. You'd think San Francisco would have been wiped off the map.

But noooooo, instead it hit South Carolina, because obviously, hitting a Bible Belt state is the best way to punish the gays.

[KamaAina]

14. It nearly was. In 1906.

Clearly the Creator anticipated the gay migration of the '70s.