[JillValentine]

Hey, Bishop:

“Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that kill innocent people are not some form of divine retribution against groups you personally don’t like. God is not your personal errand boy.”

[Ditter]

You would be surprised at how many people look at those who have had tragedies in their lives and think that God sent the tragedies as punishment for sin. I had a woman ask me (in church) if I would tell her what kind of sin I had fallen into that caused God to take my son's life in a car accident. True story.

[topher]

Plan to be in New Orleans for the next Southern Decadence gathering.

Hurricane Katrina cancelled one.

Hurricane Gustav cancelled another.

A tornado destroyed the New Orleans airport at the time that Southern Decadence was re-scheduled after Katrina...

Facts only.

The flooding in New Orleans and the abortion clinic closings in Mississippi left only 1 1/2 abortion clinics in Louisiana/Mississippi besides the ones in Shreveport.

People had to go to Shreveport, Louisiana or Delta Women's Clinic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (after Katrina).

Now Delta Women's Clinic was closed circa 2001 because it burned to the ground, so it took a couple of years to get that clinic re-opened.

The Delta Women's Clinic fire was an electrical fire...