A Cedar Rapids pastor, Eric Schumacher, says so in a Baptist Press article:
Last June, a “500-year flood” ushered millions of gallons of water through eastern Iowa. In Cedar Rapids alone, more than 25,000 individuals were displaced in one day. Hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage was done.
The Flood of 2008 is arguably the most destructive disaster that the state of Iowa has seen — at least, that is, until last Friday.
On April 3, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state law limiting marriage to one man and one woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. Licenses will be issued to homosexual couples April 27.
It is not hyperbole to say that this ruling has the potential to be the worst disaster to strike the state of Iowa.
Wow.
Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan for digging it up.
3 Comments
April 9, 2009 at 11:27 am
Wow. Wanna bet this makes it into a pro-rights ad if the Jihadists push this issue to a vote?
April 9, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Jihadists? Really?
As a wise man once said, wow.
April 9, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I don’t think the above excerpt adequately captures how hilariously ridiculous Eric Schumacher’s argument is, so allow me to offer some of my favorite quotes, some of which actually made me laugh out loud:
–”Civilization itself is eroded as marriage, the central building block of culture and society, is redefined. Soon, our sons and daughters are confused about what it means to be male and female…” (He must be talking about his kids in particular, because the kids I know aren’t nearly this easy to confuse.)
–”Far worse, the Gospel message is confused.” (Really, worse than the destruction of civilization’s very foundation is that the Bible’s message gets a little jumbled?)
–”Flood waters erode the soil. “Gay marriage” erodes the soul.” (Does this even mean anything, or did he just want to prove he knows how to use the verb “erode” in two different ways?)
This is the problem with giving your life over to an irrational devotion, where lack of evidence (a.k.a. “faith”) is actually looked upon as a boon to any argument you care to make. After stating that it is not hyperbole, Schumacher offers nothing BUT wild exaggerations, and all without a scrap of evidence to back up his far-reaching assertions. In other words, he argues like the preacher he is.