Recent Earthquakes Due to Tolerance of Gays: Israeli MP

Ah, this must explain why California has so many earthquakes. San Francisco and all, right?

Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, blamed tolerance for homosexuality at a parliamentary committee on the country's preparedness for earthquakes:

"We are looking for earthly solutions, how to prevent them. I have another way to prevent earthquakes. The Gemara says that one of the reasons earthquakes happen, which the Knesset legitimises, is homosexuality. God says you shake your genitals where you are not supposed to and I will shake my world in order to wake you up."

Okaaaay. I guess tectonic plates have nothing to do with it. And what about Nevada on Thursday? Perhaps because of all their legalized brothels?

Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognizing gay rights, including, just last week, a ruling by Israel's attorney general that same-sex couples could adopt.

Two earthquakes shook the region last week and four in November and December. You can see it has them "all shook up."