In a time of crisis any spacegoat is handy. Worse, there are many ready to believe
Forget tectonic plates. According to Shlomo Benizri, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish member of the Knesset, homosexuality causes earthquakes.
During a committee hearing on disaster preparedness, Benizri, a member of the Shas Party, reportedly urged lawmakers to "stop passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes."
Benizri was referring in part to a decision last week by Israel's attorney general granting adoption rights to same sex couples. Israel which decriminalized homosexuality in 1988, experienced at least two tremors measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale last week.
"God says you shake your genitals where you are not supposed to and I will shake my world in order to wake you up," Benizri reportedly explained to the parliamentary committee on disaster preparedness.
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