Conservative Pundit: Gays to Blame for California Drought

Add the California drought to previous floods, wild fires, earthquakes, tornadoes and other natural calamities caused by God's wrath over homosexuality.

As California struggles with a devastating four-year drought that has claimed 12 million forest trees and is threatening agriculture, Bill Koenig of the conservative news outlet World Watch Daily, has attributed prolonged dry spell to divine judgement for the Golden State's support for same-sex marriage, Right Wing Watch reports.

"We've got a state that over and over again will go against the word of God," Koenig told End Times radio host Jan Markell in a segment dedicated to chatting about "America's collision course with God."

Koenig claims that the Golden State's liberal "positions on marriage and abortion and on a lot of things that are just completely opposed to the scriptures." He warns that "unfortunately a lot of times when it starts in California it spreads to the rest of the country and even spreads to the rest of the world. So there very likely could be a drought component to this judgment."

The Associated Press reports that California's State Water Resources Control Board approved rules Tuesday that force cities to limit watering on public property, encourage homeowners to let their lawns die and impose mandatory water-savings targets for the hundreds of local agencies and cities that supply water to California customers.

Koenig's drought theory linking God's judgement on the lack of rain are in stark contrast with other fundamentalist pastors who have in the past blamed the surplus of water that caused storms and floods in Louisiana and Colorado on God's wrath over homosexuals.

A 2013 Right Wing Watch report noted that Pastor Kevin Swanson of Generations Radio said that it was no coincidence that Colorado experienced deadly floods at the same time state "legislators committed homosexual acts on the front page of the Denver Post" and made sure to "kill as many babies as possible" and "encourage as much decadent homosexual activity as possible."

In 2012, The Huffington Post reported that numerous fundamentalist pastors blamed Hurricane Isaac, that threatened the gulf coast on Southern Decadence, the gay Mardi Gras celebration that draws an estimated 120,000 visitors to New Orleans.