We love our Swaggart and Haggard

Lacking their own ultra-Orthodox Tim Tebowitz, the Rabbinic Alliance of America, apparently the Hebraic version of Focus on the Family, channels Pat Robertson, in the person of their spokesrebbe Rabbi Yehuda Levin:

"When Americans are suffering economically and millions need jobs, it's shocking that the Administration is focused on its ultra-liberal militantly homosexualist agenda forcing the highlighting of homosexuals and homosexuality on an unwilling military. This is the equivalent of the spiritual rape of our military to satisfy the most extreme and selfish cadre of President Obama's kooky coalition.

We agree with Eileen Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness that this will hurt the cohesiveness of the military, cause many to leave the army, and dramatically lower the number of recruits, perhaps leading to the reinstatement of a compulsory draft.
"Thirteen months before 9/11, on the day New York City passed homosexual domestic partnership regulations, I joined a group of Rabbis at a City Hall prayer service, pleading with G-d not to visit disaster on the city of N.Y. We have seen the underground earthquake, tsunami, Katrina, and now Haiti. All this is in sync with a two thousand year old teaching in the Talmud that the practice of homosexuality is a spiritual cause of earthquakes. Once a disaster is unleashed, innocents are also victims just like in Chernobyl.

"We plead with saner heads in Congress and the Pentagon to stop sodomization of our military and our society. Enough is enough."

So I guess it's not ironic that this press release blaming the Haitian earthquake on homosexuals and the potential repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell made it out via the ChristianNewsWire. (Thanks, Goldblog.) Obviously, these disturbed so-called rabbis couldn't find another source that would be as receptive to their screed. (A quick google shows that these clowns have made a habit of attacking the gays. It seems to me that they protest too much.)

I guess all those gay soldier serving in the Israeli Defense Force must explain a whole bunch of natural disasters.

On a serious note, this past Saturday, my rabbi did a sermon about how Judaism doesn't read the Torah literally, and how that has helped us advance as a people and a religion. Someone didn't tell these guys. Then again, since the RAA doesn't recognize non-Orthodox Jews as being Jewish, I don't think they'd be interested in my rabbi's opinions.

(This should cause a tremor or two.)