Demands For Censure After Gay Earthquake Remark

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Several Members of the Knesset are calling for an extreme Orthodox party to censure two of its members after recent outbursts that attacked Israeli gays.

The most recent came this week when Shas Party member Shlomo Benizri told the Knesset that gays were responsible for last week's earthquake that rattled the region.

A tremor measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale rocked Israel, Lebanon and Syria last Friday. Seismologists say there could be a major earthquake within the next few years because of a major fault-line in the region.

Parliament was discussing the damage caused by the quake and ways of limiting damage from future earthquakes when Benizri said the most effective way of preventing damage would be to roll back LGBT civil rights.