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A UKIP councillor has written a homophobic letter to a local newspaper in Henley on Thames blaming the recent storms and flooding in the UK on the legalisation of gay marriage.
David Silvester wrote to the Henley Standard claiming that the scriptures make it clear that a Christian nation abandoning its faith will be “beset by natural disasters”.
The former Tory, who quit the party over David Cameron’s support for same sex marriage continued the rant, saying:
I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same sex marriage Bill.
But he went ahead despite a 600,000-signature petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own parliamentary party saying that he should not do so.
Now, even as Cameron sheds crocodile tears on behalf of destitute flooded homeowners, playing at advocate against the very local councils he has made cash-strapped, it is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods.
He has arrogantly acted against the Gospel that once made Britain ‘great’ and the lesson surely to be learned is that no man or men, however powerful, can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it for everything a nation does is weighed on the scaled of divine approval or disapproval.
UKIP have said that Silvester’s views are not the official stance of the party, but defended his right to express them in a democratic country.
