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Rick Joyner: Hurricane Katrina Was God's Way Of Punishing Gay People

Last week on “The Jim Bakker Show(link is external),” televangelist Rick Joyner repeated his claim(link is external) that gay pride events are to blame for Hurricane Katrina, alleging that the storm was a sign of God’s judgment(link is external) and “a wakeup call.”

Joyner also spent time(link is external) criticizing the Supreme Court’s landmark marriage equality ruling during a discussion about the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

After wondering(link is external) if Scalia’s death was a sign from either God or Satan, Joyner again insisted(link is external) that while he doesn’t like conspiracy theories, “there’s something really suspicious” about Scalia’s death: “There’s something really fishy about this that needs to be answered.”

“This could fracture our nation and bring about Civil War,” Joyner said of Scalia’s death. “It has that potential. That sounds extreme but, I tell you, you wait and see.”

This led him to declare(link is external) that the Supreme Court has become an out-of-control force of tyranny and that the five justices who ruled in favor of marriage equality “need to be impeached.”