More on Gay Sex and Earthquakes

[rozk]

"We have seen the underground earthquake, tsunami, Katrina, and now Haiti. All this is in sync with a two thousand year old teaching in the Talmud that the practice of homosexuality is a spiritual cause of earthquakes. Once a disaster is unleashed, innocents are also victims just like in Chernobyl."
- Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America

What I don't know is whether Justinian got it from Talmudic scholars or whether Rabbi Levin is claiming something as long-standing rabbinical tradition that Justinian made up in the first place.

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[avram]

Well, the Bible says that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of

No, it actually doesn't. That's a Christian gloss on the text. The Jewish tradition is that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because the inhabitants were generally cruel and corrupt. The particular sin of Sodom was being inhospitable to strangers.