More on Joe Lieberman

A recent post on Glenn Greenwald's blog (which I love) shows the type of characters Joe has been hanging out with. JL was the guest of honor at a recent event for Christians United for Israel, a group headed by hard-core evangenical Minister John Hagee. Aside from promoting a hawkish Middle East foreign policy, Rev. Hagee holds some, shall we say, disturbing views. Here is a quote from him from a late 2006 interview:

All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

The newspaper carried the story in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it would was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades.

So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the Day of Judgment, and I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.

Nice guy, I see why Sen. Lieberman was so pleased to be honored by his organization.